Quotes about Adversity
Don't allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.
— Joel Osteen
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
— Thomas Paine
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.
— Malala Yousafzai
O, do not pray for easy lives.
— Phillips Brooks
When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.
— Winston Churchill
The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
— Oswald Chambers
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.
— Norman Vincent Peale
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
— Isabel Allende
We must do that which we think we cannot.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.
— Thomas Merton
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
— Charles Dickens