Quotes about Adversity
When I was younger, I had a terrible problem with stuttering.
— Tony Evans
There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
— Vance Havner
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
— Vance Havner
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
— Vernon Sanders Law
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
— Victor Hugo
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
— Victor Hugo
Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through
— Robert Frost
The best revenge is to always survive yourself.
— Henry Rollins
I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.
— Sam Walton