Quotes about Adversity
If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.
— Marcus Aurelius
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
— Napoleon Hill
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.
— Will Rogers
Too much happens…. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything…. That's what's so terrible.
— William Faulkner
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
— William Faulkner
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
— William Hazlitt
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
— William Hazlitt
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
— David Brinkley
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
— Teresa of Avila
God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.
— Zig Ziglar
Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.
— Eric Liddell
God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!
— Beth Moore