Quotes about Adversity
(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.
- Charles Stanley
The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.
- John Quincy Adams
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.
- Lou Holtz
There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.
- Norman Vincent Peale
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.
- Zig Ziglar
An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.
- Charles Spurgeon
In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on
- Zig Ziglar
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
- Norman Vincent Peale
What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us
- Rick Warren