Quotes about Adversity
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
- George Eliot
I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.
- Bishop TD Jakes
When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.
- TB Joshua
Give thanks for all that shows up in your life including the stuff that you perceive to be negative, the things that you wish wouldn't have happened. Don't take anything forgranted.
- Wayne Dyer
Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.
- Stephen Colbert
Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.
- Dale Carnegie
Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.
- Elizabeth George
I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!
- Oprah Winfrey
Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.
- Gordon Hinckley
What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
- Helen Keller
I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.
- Joel Osteen