Quotes about Adversity
O, do not pray for easy lives.
— Phillips Brooks
When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.
— Winston Churchill
The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
— Oswald Chambers
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.
— Norman Vincent Peale
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
— Isabel Allende
We must do that which we think we cannot.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.
— Thomas Merton
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
— Charles Dickens
You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose
— Wayne Dyer
But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.
— Oprah Winfrey