Quotes about Adversity

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they reveal what he is.

Good comes out of evil.

It is not in the nature of man to bear the cross, to love the cross, to keep under the body and to bring it into subjection, to fly from honours, to bear reproaches meekly, to despise self and desire to be despised, to bear all adversities and losses, and to desire no prosperity in this world.

For when the grace of God cometh to a man, then he becometh able to do all things, and when it departeth then he will be poor and weak and given up unto troubles. In these thou art not to be cast down nor to despair, but to rest with calm mind on the will of God, and to bear all things which come upon thee unto the praise of Jesus Christ; for after winter cometh summer, after night returneth day, after the tempest a great calm.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

I think no matter what or no matter who you are you're always going to get some type of negativity, whatever that may be.

There's no excuse to give up the hand you're dealt. You've just got to keep fighting and make something positive out of it.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

We all are vulnerable to the forces and decisions that have derailed too many.