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Quotes about Adversity

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.
— Joel Osteen
Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.
— Tony Robbins
(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