Adversity Quotes

If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.

Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God's defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach.

In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.

A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

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

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.