Quotes about Adversity
You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose
— Wayne Dyer
But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.
— Oprah Winfrey
Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
— CS Lewis
If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.
— Joyce Meyer
Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.
— David O. McKay
While there may be thorns and disappointments, while there may be heartache, even heartbreak, there can be peace and comfort and strength from the Lord for those who follow Him.
— Gordon Hinckley
Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall?
— JC Ryle
There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up!
— Michael Jordan
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronge
— John F. Kennedy