Quotes about Adversity

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

If I had heard that as many devils would set on me in Worms as there are tiles on the roofs, I should nonetheless have ridden there.

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.