Quotes about Adversity
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
— George W. Bush
I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.
— Joel Osteen
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.
— Marianne Williamson
Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.
— John Maxwell
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
— Mother Teresa
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
— Jonathan Edwards
If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
— JC Ryle
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.
— Charles Spurgeon
Lord, help me to see what comes my way as an opportunity instead of an inconvenience.
— Lysa TerKeurst
I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams
— Paulo Coelho