Quotes about Adversity
To realize your greatest strengths, you must first overcome your greatest weaknesses.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Turbulence does not shake a tree with strong roots.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower, no matter how beautiful, still has to grow in dirt.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot walk in a great man's shoes without getting sores on your feet.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Scars are your greatest medals in life.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.
— Anonymous
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
— Marcus Aurelius
If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.
— Marcus Aurelius
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
— Napoleon Hill
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.
— Will Rogers