Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Adversity Quotes
AdversityInner StrengthPersonal GrowthResilienceStruggle He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
AdversityEvacuationHurricane I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'
AdversityNatural DisastersResilienceSurvival I've been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.
AdversityGuidanceHopePerseverance I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
AdversityFriendshipGrowthSelf Preservation As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
AdversityEnduranceIllnessSuffering Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.
AdversityPerspectiveProactivityResilienceStrength All birds find shelter during a rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds.
AdversityChildhoodPerseverance I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
AdversityChildhoodEmpathyPoverty Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a childhood.
AdversityFaithSpiritual GrowthSurrender Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
AdversityChangeLove RelationshipsPersonal GrowthResilience You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.
AdversityEmpathyEnduranceLearningPerseverance By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
AdversityInjuryPhysical Challenge I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.
AdversityLife S ChallengesTrouble Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
AdversityCreationDeliveranceDivine PurposeStruggle Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.
AdversityResilienceStrength A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
AcceptanceAdversityCourageFaithUnderstanding The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
AdversityContrastPerseveranceProsperityResilience Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
