Adversity Quotes

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

You can victory overcome every situation by faith and hope.

Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming.

Those things that hurt instruct.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat. What they don’t understand is hatred can’t be isolated or turned off. It manifests in their health, choices and belief systems. Their values and religious beliefs make adjustments to justify their negative emotions. Not unlike malware infesting a hard drive, their spirit slowly becomes corrupted and they make choices that don’t make logical sense to others. Hatred left unaddressed will crash a person’s spirit. The only thing he or she can do is to reboot, by fixing him or herself, not others. This might require installing a firewall of boundaries or parental controls on their emotions. Regardless of the approach, we are all connected on this "network of life" and each of us is responsible for cleaning up our spiritual registry.

In the darkness time, the soul evolves to give light to the spirit.

Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.

Gain strength through adversity…!

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.

My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.

The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.

I will finish what I have began.

In my youth poverty enriched me but now I can afford wealth.

Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint. The Lord is my comfort, my hope and my peace.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

Use your tears to water the garden of your dreams.

Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success.

The soul awakens in times obscurity by divine grace.

May you find grace to survive life difficulties.

Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.

In times of adversity we develop our senses of creativity and strength of our souls.

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

Adversity tests what the soul can endure.

Because when you give too many fucks—when you give a fuck about everyone and everything—you will feel that you’re perpetually entitled to be comfortable and happy at all times, that everything is supposed to be just exactly the fucking way you want it to be. This is a sickness. And it will eat you alive. You will see every adversity as an injustice, every challenge as a failure, every inconvenience as a personal slight, every disagreement as a betrayal.

Never allow adversity to define you. May you find hope and strength to graciously overcome the adversity.

We are refined like gold, with every adversity endured.

Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances? It takes grace and enough strength, to get up and begin again

We trust and rely on God at all times.

To live is to suffer to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

She built her character with the adversity she had faced, so she could live the best of her life for the rest of life.

Perseverance, endurance and patience are the three greatest survival skills.

It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us.Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but I actually mean sad.

I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don't give up too early.

Do all the works you can while you still have the strength to work.

Adversity often defines dignity.

Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.

I think hearts are very much like glasses - if they do not break with the first ring they usually last a considerable time.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Adversities test whether we really can live for our dreams.

Faith gives us the courage to endure every circumstance.

You must never surrender to any defeat.

You have to push through every difficulty to have a breakthrough.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

How we handle adversity determines the chances if we either fall or rise.

The thing is, there is no certainty in this life - in one second your entire world could shift. I'm not saying it will, but I am living proof that It can. We never prepare for tragedy and that's a good thing but my god what's it's taught me is how little we appreciate what we have or some cases once had.

All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.