Adversity Quotes

“One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.”
― Robert Fulghum, Uh-oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

“The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“There is nothing that can happen TO you that can’t also happen FOR you…if you’ll let it.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Life is a battle, and you either enter it armed, or surrender immediately.”
― the TV show "Gilmore Girls"

“Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was the ruler of a great Empire. He was a man of spotless
character who always had confidence in himself and in God's help. No aspect of his life remained hidden nor was his death
a mysterious event.”
― M.H. Hyndman

“Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.”
― Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III

“The only people I am aware of who don’t have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.”
― Steve Goodier

“Sometimes it feels as if God set you on Earth with a bottle full of nasty-tasting pills called days and these instructions: Swallow one at a time. When entire prescription is finished, you may return home.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong--or absolutely right.”
― Albert Guinon

“My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up.”
― Joe Biden, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

“You are a strong woman now, not the insecure, introverted, spoiled brat I married. You know adversity and know how to fight for success. You will do great in this world as you carry on. Be careful. Remember: they all want to fuck you. Few will love you. I do and did.”
― Tit Elingtin, Eminent Domain

“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.”
― Christian D. Larson

“The distance doesn't matter; it is only the first step that is difficult.”
― Mari de Vichy-Chamrond Marquise du Deffand

“Trials come to each of us. Living righteously does not mean that our lives will be free of problems or sorrow, but no matter what hardships we face we can always rely on Heavenly Father and His son. They will not forsake us, and They will give each of us the strength to face whatever may come."

June 2013 Ensign, "Our God Will Never Us Forsake”
― Jennifer Ann Holt

“Just do the next right thing.

Then repeat indefinitely.”
― John Passaro, 6 Minutes Wrestling With Life

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston Chruchhill

“Patience is produced in the midst of storms; it blossoms under the intense pressures of the storms.”
― E'yen A. Gardner, Break Free

“We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come.”
― Dallin H. Oaks

“Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Big challenges provide big opportunities.”
― Ian Usher, A LIFE SOLD - What ever happened to that guy who sold his whole life on eBay?

“Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Break a bone..and as the broken part heals it becomes the strongest part in it....get hit by a virus, survive that and "supposedly" it can never get u again... observe how ur skin that gets rubbed on a surface often becomes thicker and more rough with time ....remember how naive you were before and with each incident and accident with people that you've had ..it brought you to the "knowing better" person you are now............you cant be stronger..if life doesn't try you every now and then ....and after each trial..it promises a stronger more immune version of you”
― Eman Farouk

“[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism. In fact, in case after case, the opposite occurs: In the earthquake and fire of 1906, Jack London observed: "never, in all San Francisco's history, were her people so kind and courteous as on this night of terror." "We did not panic. We coped," a British psychiatrist recalled after the July 7, 2005, London subway bombings. We often assume that such humanity among survivors, what author Rebecca Solnit has called "a paradise built in hell," is an exception after catastrophes, specific to a particular culture or place. In fact, it is the rule.”
― Jonathan M. Katz, The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

“What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.”
― Ian Usher, A LIFE SOLD - What ever happened to that guy who sold his whole life on eBay?

“Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ.”
― CARLOS H. AMADO

“For the first time in my life, I fully realized that I was not in charge. I knew that I needed to submit to Heavenly Father's will. I couldn't have what I wanted when and how I wanted it just because I was keeping the commandments. The purpose of prayer was not to tell Heavenly Father what to do, rather to find out what He would have me do and learn. I needed to align my will with His...Prayer is less about changing our circumstances and more about changing us. It is about seeking His will and asking for His help to do what we need to do."

June 2013 Ensign, "Improving Your Personal Prayers”
― Kevin W. Pearson

“The devil will never rest, nor sleep, nor turn his head from you. He will find every fault, every weakness, every discrepancy he can magnify, expand and contort every sin to cause you to abort your mission here; to cause you to feel like a worthless, ignoble, useless, piece of garbage to get you to fail in your task that God has for you. So what are you going to do about it?”
― Garrett Fredlund

“Success advances the man's cause, adversity cleans the man's soul.”
― Malik