Quotes about Adversity
when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.
— Og Mandino
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
— Mike Huckabee
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?
— Charles Stanley
I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.
— Francis de Sales
He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.
— Julian of Norwich
Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.
— St. Augustine
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
— Charles Spurgeon
There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.
— Zig Ziglar
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
— Henry Rollins
I was never crippled until I lost hope.
— Nick Vujicic