Quotes about Adversity
The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.
— Jennifer Lopez
Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
— Mother Teresa
When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path.
— Paulo Coelho
Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.
— Paulo Coelho
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
— Oscar Wilde
There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes.
— Charles Stanley
Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'
— Maya Angelou
it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.
— Hannah More
If you're going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you're going to have big challenges.
— Joel Osteen
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.
— John Maxwell
Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
— Lou Holtz