Quotes about Strength In Adversity
It is up to us in our time to choose, and choose wisely, between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom, and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day.
— Ronald Reagan
There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.
— Soren Kierkegaard
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?
— Leonard Ravenhill
God will give you strength when you think you can't go on. He will give you joy when you should be discouraged. He can make a way when it looks impossible.
— Joel Osteen
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
— Thomas Paine
Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.
— Malala Yousafzai
You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.
— Charles Spurgeon
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
— Isabel Allende
When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
— Joseph Campbell
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson