Quotes about Adversity
When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
— Mark Twain
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
— Virginia Woolf
You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.
— Joel Osteen
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
— Rob Bell
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.
— Napoleon Hill
Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.
— Nick Vujicic
Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.
— Thomas Monson
Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
— Charles Stanley
God uses no one until He first puts them through the storm. The greater your mission, the greater your storm.
— John Hagee
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
— Frank Sinatra
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
— Aristotle
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
— Mark Twain