Adversity Quotes

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?

~ John Bytheway

Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

~ Roy T. Bennett

When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive.

~ Roy T. Bennett

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

~ Sarah Dessen

Hardships make or break people.

~ Margaret Mitchell

Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.

~ Roy T. Bennett

When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

~ Mary Tyler Moore

Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?

~ Shannon L. Alder

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]

~ Anne Bradstreet

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

To live is to war with trolls.

~ Henrik Ibsen

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

~ Thomas S. Monson

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.

~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times.

~ Roy T. Bennett

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

~ Thomas S. Monson

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

~ Jimmy Buffett

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

~ Nick Hornby

Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.

~ Alysha Speer

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

~ Haruki Murakami

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

~ Seneca

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

~ Og Mandino

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

~ Joseph Conrad

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

~ Criss Jami

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

~ J.k. Rowling

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

~ Napoleon Hill

Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There’s no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should’ve done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn’t work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG

~ Pablo

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

~ Terry Goodkind

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

~ Titus Lucretius Carus

Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

~ Suzy Kassem

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.

~ Criss Jami

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

~ Criss Jami

The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you.

~ Criss Jami

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

~ Criss Jami