Quotes about Adversity

Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

God's purpose for us is not to make us healthy, happy, prosperous, and problem-free. His ultimate purpose is to conform us to the image of His own dear Son, that we might bear much fruit to His glory.12 And sometimes, in fulfilling that purpose, He allows us to be hurt.

Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

In life you will meet two kinds of people: Those who build you up and those who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank them both.

People are like tea bags—they never know their own strength until they get into hot water.

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.