Quotes about Adversity
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
— Drew Barrymore
I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.
— Drew Barrymore
The next morning, walking about the charred embers of so many of his hopes and dreams, the sixty-seven-year-old Edison said, "There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew."
— Dutch Sheets
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
— DL Moody
Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was.
— Lynn Austin
God won't allow anything happen in your life if it's not for your good.
— Nick Vujicic
You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.
— Joel Osteen
Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.
— Tony Robbins
(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.
— Charles Stanley
The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.
— John Quincy Adams
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
— Lou Holtz
There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.
— Norman Vincent Peale