Overcoming Adversity Quotes

Endure the pain, overcome the hurt.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and damaged, which should remind us that there are real limits to what evil and misfortune can accomplish. If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening. If you bomb a city, you leave behind death and destruction. But you create a community of remote misses. If you take away a mother or a father, you cause suffering and despair. But one time in ten, out of that despair rises as indomitable force. You see the giant and the shepherd in the Valley of Elah and your eye is drawn to the man with sword and shield and the glittering armor. But so much of what is beautiful and valuable in the world comes from the shepherd, who has more strength and purpose than we ever imagine.

Malcolm Gladwell

Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Moving rocks today strengthens you for moving mountains tomorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be.

Auliq-Ice

The future glory far outweigh the present troubles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You see, Christ's purpose can't be derailed by your limitations or troubles. Your difficulties will not trip Him up or cause Him delays. Painful trials, which may bring you to your knees will not baffle our Creator. He has a God-sized dream waiting for you to accomplish. His majestic plan is sovereign. Ultimately, He could use anything to graciously lead you to victory.

The happiest of endings begin with a struggle so embrace yours

Nomzamo Nhlumayo

The prettiest flower still had to struggle to surface.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Calm yourself and you calm your storm.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in the darkest hour that a star reveals its brightest light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Use what you've been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!

You are stronger than your challenges and your challenges are making you stronger.

Karen Salmansohn

Turbulence breaks a tree’s branches, but only tickles an eagle’s wings.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If seeds saw dirt as their enemy, they would lose out on the opportunity to grow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Adversity only makes us stronger.Every adversity we overcome makes our spirit and soul grow stronger.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.

You are strong enough to overcome the situation!

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am a happy soul, despite all life challenges.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Count your summers, not your winters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A candle is at its brightest in the dark.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Step by step a mountain is conquered.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Hang on! Don’t give up.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.

Life is uncertain. We can never predict when hard times shall strike.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

Aberjhani

I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.

Nicole Williams

Don’t run from your weakness, you will only give it strength.

Stephen Richards

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

(I)f you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the road will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the

If you want to catch your dreams, you have to drop your fears.

Anton Rubaclini

They torture us but could not kill our spirit. We have greater divine power, guiding and protecting us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can find hope in despair. Dwell on positive thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Stay strong in spirit, be patient and you will overcome any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord gives even more grace, so you can endure the test of time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a better friend than despair.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens.

Matshona Dhliwayo

God will only push you off a cliff if He's going to give you wings to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God.

Be encouraged! You can fulfil your dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

The greater the pressure the brighter the diamond.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Future dreams distract you from present nightmares.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The cream rises to the top, even if sour.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Today’s caterpillars are tomorrow’s butterflies.

Matshona Dhilwayo

Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you run a hundred miles in your heart, you are ready to run a hundred miles on your feet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Use the dirt life throws at you to plant the seeds of your success.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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