Strength Through Adversity Quotes

Stop thinking of me as broken or not whole. Put that bullshit down and walk away. It's not doing you any good and it's insulting to me. ~ J.R. Ward

An 'eye for an eye' shall leave you all blind.
It's sometimes better to walk away and know you will still be able to see the beauty that tomorrow will bring. ~ Michelle Horst

the fallen of the baboon into the river is the risen of the joy of the crocodile. Though the crocodile becomes happy, it conceals its joy until it deploys all its necessary deft and strength to take captive of the Baboon ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A quiet woman is a firearms with a silencer. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe. ~ John Green

My true potential had more to do with my willingness to struggle than with my past and present circumstances. ~ Hope Jahren

Your haters gather the most at the sidelines. ~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

We all have weakness and strength. I have to fight against the weakness in my personality. Everyone of should fight against the weakness of the soul. Seek to build on your strengths. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't get over grief, you just get more used to it. ~ Susan Oakey-Baker

Sometimes life will be awesome. Sometimes, life will look blurry. Along the way in the journey of life, sometimes, life will be colder than warmer and sometimes warmer than colder but in all things we must remember that it is never over for a purposeful journey of life until the journey of life is over. Be it rough or smooth, good or bad, we must accomplish the task. It shall always not be good and it shall always not be bad; we only have to work hard. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there. ~ Ruta Sepetys

Jesus has prayed over us that our faith in Him will not fail but rather be strengthened by the process we go through. ~ E'yen A. Gardner

Sometimes the scars you can't see are a lot worse than the ones you can, you know? ~ Jacquelyn Middleton

And they say, if ever a traveler plucks the wild parsley, and takes the bark of the hazel tree, and the secret toadstools, and mixes them with crocus from the patch of forest where the hero's last bones lie, a powerful spell will come to life. The hero will be reborn, not as he was before his destruction, but many times stronger in body and spirit; for he will be filled with the strength of earth, sea, and air. I think of the seven of us as the parts of one body. We may be torn asunder, and it may seem as if there is no tomorrow for us. We may each travel our own path, and we may fall and be broken and mend again. But in the end, as surely as the sun and moon make their way across the arch of the heavens, the strength of one is the strength of seven. ~ Juliet Marillier

God is the source of life, honour and wealth. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way. ~ Betty Smith

Hope is my strength. My strength is my weapon. And my Love, nurtures them both. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Strength through adversity. The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it strength. Those two things make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it's called upon to fight. (Savitar) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I once made a solemn vow that I could not keep... I am from this world. Even with all its failures and suffering it is still worthy of my best efforts... and wishing it was otherwise does not make it so." Eiij'lam told the king. ~ K. Farrell St. Germain

We get so caught up in the phenomenon of pain that we refuse to learn the lesson it teaches us. We must learn to stop asking how could this happen and start learning to be thankful for it happening. ~ Sabrina Newby

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom. ~ Nancy Farmer

All this time I told myself we were born from war-- but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence--but for that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it. ~ Ocean Vuong

I hope that you never cower from your dark chapters, but highlight them as proof of perseverance, endurance, and strength. ~ Kierra C.T. Banks

The difference between being empowered and being strengthened is reliance. When that object which empowers you is removed your progress is mostly lost. Strive for the latter and independence will occur. ~ Inuk Bech Larsen

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen. ~ Ruth Downie

Faith is believing that it's not God who is wearing us away with trials but, rather, making us strong enough to bear them. ~ Mary Morrell

All the time, mind the time! Strength fades with time, and experience grows with time! Strength changes to experience with time, and experience changes perspective with time! Perspective changes with time, and time shapes perspective with time! Life changes with time, and time changes life with time! Changes in life change experience with time! Changes in life strengthen our experiences and understanding with time! Understanding grows with time, and occurrences in life shape our understanding with time! Give it to time and time will show everything with time! Bye and bye, time will tell! Bye and bye, God will speak! God works with time; just watch the time! Just wait upon the Lord, and with time, He will show you the time! Take advantage of the time, for time is there for everyone, but it is not all people who use time for effective and lasting footprints all the time! All the time, mind the time! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I think the key to success is vision that adjusts on the way, but doesn't at all falter. It's about not compromising and following your gut to a certain degree, based on knowledge, instinct, etc. And not listening to the naysayers ... You develop strength through adversity. You have to keep moving towards your goal through huge obstacles. ~ Millard Drexler

Yes, memories do haunt. Memories of a happy past, in the expectation of a bleak future, in a sad present. - Anita ~ Nilesh Sakpal

I'm not saying it's going to be easy; I'm saying it's going to be worth it. If it was easy, you would've done it by now ~ B. Dave Walters

You see, at young age I had known how bitter taste like and it all started with a cup of brewed coffee. ~ Ymatruz

The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life. ~ Joseph Addison

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong. ~ Raheel Farooq

Whenever life is getting tough hold on.
Don't let it get the best of you stay strong. ~ Laqueisha Malone

There are so many people who though can fight life and win greatly, yet they have imprisoned their own true strength and they just beg at the feet of defeat and miserable life, knowingly or unknowingly, at the expense of their true purpose! Awake whilst you have life and do something noble with all our might now! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If there's one thing I've learned, it is to never give up
no matter what your circumstances are. Giving up doesn't solve anything. ~ Millicent Ashby

Although it is easy to imagine happiness as the upwards turn on this haphazard rising and falling of emotion which is life, but really it is a foundation of strength of character and inner balance that precipitates peace, a foundation that is slowly built or slowly chipped away.
There are times when it may seem that the foundation of happiness is broken, but as the dust settles and the debris is cleared away, we find that the storm has only covered it, still leaving everything we have built in place.
True happiness is forged in the furnace of perseverance, fortitude, hope and love. It is not burned or broken by the heat, rather it is made unbreakable - it becomes eternal. Life is the fuel for this purifying fire. ~ Michael Brent Jones

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about. ~ Jonathan Harnisch

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened. ~ Criss Jami

I've noticed in my life that the people who act as my angels are not some strange angelic creatures that seem almost untouchable, but are more real than that. They are people who have tasted sorrow, who have felt pain, and in a way, that makes them capable of being an angel. In their darkest moments they have become strong. ~ The Hippie

She hadn't seen a doctor cry before, they usually don't, that makes it
harder.
- Anita ~ Nilesh Sakpal

You can sit in the corner and cry or you can go out and dance in the rain. Either way, the storm is coming. ~ Paradise Rodriguez

The key is to be stronger than your situation, not run away from it. ~ Joshlyn Wallace

I must rule with eye and claw - as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides ~ Frank Herbert

My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry. ~ Siri Hustvedt

An open mind, is the best weapon, in the fight between light and darkness ~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

What's the point of wandering?
to find a better place?
a home?
But the loneliness will always capture me
in its claws
of no tomorrow ~ Asper Blurry

And so, she turned her back on the abyss for another day. ~ Megan Kennedy

You are alone because you were born alone. And though you were born alone, you found a reason and the strength to shake yourself, though as helpless as you were at birth, for the whole universe to hear and know that you have not just arrived, but you are healthy, and you commended and moved things and people around you with your cry, even as an infant! And though it all seems you are alone, note that once you can breathe, you are never alone! Smile, for there is an indomitable power within you, given to you by God! Realize your God, realize your power! Awake and realize your true strength and the strong power within you! Face life and do not just challenge the challenges in life but conquer them with all boldness and fortitude. Step by step, complete the steps! It is always not all that easy, but, be strong and beat life no matter what! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I think there's a point in everyone's life where they realize that despite their best efforts, they have no choice but to surrender. That carrying on will only bring them more pain or heartache. I don't think there's any way that we can avoid these moments. But I just want you to know that I'm not quite there yet. ~ Tessa Clare

The more one tries to make me weak the stronger I become. ~ Amit Abraham

When everything looks unbearable,
And nothing really seems to fit,
You've got to work at full stretch,
But you should never ever quit! ~ Ana Claudia Antunes

A lion walks alone. He does not need a pack of wolves to follow him. ~ Amit Abraham

Often what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place. ~ Karen Salmansohn

In a world of flowers grown in pots, I'd like you girls to thrive in the wild. ~ Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

The dark times are there for you to grow and to create a dependency on God. This is all part of your sanctification process. ~ Michael Barbarulo

The Lord is my redeemer.
The Lord is my defender ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be grateful for each day, even the dark ones. ~ Pepper Winters

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived. ~ Sage Steadman

Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems. ~ Gary Hopkins

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them. ~ Irvin D. Yalom

It is a beautiful thing to know that every tear, every obstacle is, in fact, a chance to step higher. To choose better. To have better. To paint over the hurts like never before. "He uses all things for good" is this very essence! It is not He who desires these fallen moment, these times of hurt and confusion, but it IS he who weaves our creations, the good and ugly, into a tapestry of glory for those who love him and live in His presence. ~ Bella Vespira

Without struggles, success would be meaningless. ~ Peprah Boasiako

No one can make you 'better' emotionally, mentally, spiritually or physically. You have to find this for yourself. You have to taste that brutal moment when you're crying in a corner of the room, curled up on the floor and you think this is your end. You have to fight to stand up, literally. And you have to walk over to your reflection and scream, scream it all out. Then you have pick up your sword and fight and never quit. This is your life. Don't let those bastards win. ~ Crystal Woods

It is has been a long time since I have written one of my statuses about life. I have been very busy trying to promote my Fan page, Friends and services, and my books. However, I can tell you all one thing for certain. I am not a Quitter. I will not stop writing books. I will not stop pushing myself to succeed. I will not stop being who I am.
I am a winner. Winning is an attitude. You take the good with the bad and you keep on going. It gets hard, you get tired and sometimes burnt out but you keep on going anyway, because you can.
Winners have setbacks, but winners learn tighten their belts and go on. Winner look at what has gone wrong and instead of complaining they find ways of doing it better. Winners know that Rome was not built in a day and take every day as it comes.
Winners do not whine, they roar. ~ Alexander Stone

You used to pray for this level of strength. ~ Kierra C.T. Banks

I learned that I was never alone, that there was Someone always very close by and, indeed, within me, giving me strength in times of weakness and desolation, light in times of darkness, joy in times of great sorrow and pain, and the will to struggle on when continuing seemed futile. ~ Joseph F. Girzone

Gain strength through adversity…! ~ James A. Murphy

Having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for. ~ Charles Bukowski

Nothing like being woken up after only a few hours of sleep by workmen wanting to come into your sanctuary to check water lines to put life into perspective. Wine glasses, dishes, yesterday's ghosts, and a fucking mess everywhere. It's not all about me, is it? Life moves around out there and sometimes it wants to come in and mess with me when all I want to do is turn over and hide. I am a fragile being, sometimes it takes almost nothing to knock me off my feet and make me tired of living. Sometimes I am so tired that everything is a gargantuan effort. But I'm strong, I always hang on and hold on. My emotions run from being elated and looking up to the sky and seeing all the infinite possibilities, to looking straight into the eyes of Hades. But you know me, I always come through with all my scars, all the love I carry in my heart, and my crooked tiara. Every single diamond in that tiara reflects all the light within me and within you. Indestructible ~ Riitta Klint

Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves. ~ Nicolas G. Janovsky

What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it. ~ Christopher Earle

A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed. ~ Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

There is strength in every struggle. Struggles create opportunities for you to become stronger, wiser and better. The moment you shift your thinking from "I cannot" to "I must," you will begin to see 'Beyond the Pain' and draw strength from within. Learn to see each obstacle as a stepping stone and watch your life change significantly. ~ Kemi Sogunle

[T]here isn't anything worth losing your mind for. And if things become too complicated or too stressful - let it go. I don't care if it's a job, a woman, man, child or beast - if it's too much for you and it's causing you too much pressure to the point where you are thinking about committing suicide? Let it go. ~ D. A. Smith

Someone once told me that life wasn't fair...and they were right. But I don't think that life was ever meant to be fair or perfect. It's not the tragedy, it's how we deal with it. It's whether we come out stronger because of it. It's not about blocking out the pain or hiding from it, it's about letting the pain shape you into someone better than you were before. ~ Nicole Garber

Love is our strength to overcome the evils of the world. ~ Amit Ray

As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become. ~ Teresa R. Funke, Bursts Of Brilliance For A Creative Life Blog

You will know the limit of your strength when you fight for what you are afraid to lose. If you know what to be scared of, then you fight harder. Eventually, you learn how to win. ~ Mystqx Skye

No matter what challenges or obstacles we experience, we must make a CHOICE to become better or bitter because of it. Will and pray your way through it. In my opinion, the difference between those who are considered strong and those who are seen as weak are what they DECIDE to focus on. But, having down moments don't make someone weak, it makes them human. We wouldn't be human if we don't "feel", but at some point we MUCH force ourselves to get up! ~ Yvonne Pierre

I want you to identify your strengths or talents and to find something about yourself that makes you unique and special and refer to that image each time you find yourself feeling insecure or unsure. ~ Carlos Wallace

The runner knows something the rest of us are busy forgetting: to get stronger, you have to go on until you are uncomfortable, and then go on a while longer. It is in that place where discomfort happens but activity is still possible that growth and development happen. ~ Jason Dias

Your skill, strength, and overall survival are offensive to some people. Those are definitely not your people. ~ Sabrina Newby

Just like the rose holds her beauty among the thorns- we can gather our strength from the most unlikely places. ~ Christine Evangelou

To live this life. To live it with wholeness and gratitude and trust. In the pain and the glory. In the mess and the grace. In the sacred and the desperation. This is the stuff of which real superheros are born. ~ Jeanette LeBlanc

Strength is not defined by the load you bear, it's defined by the amount you can bend before breaking. ~ Blake Mays

Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way. ~ Tom Althouse

You pray and nothing happens. You pray and nothing happens.
You pray and nothing happens.
You pray; - and something is bound to happen!. ~ Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel

Men who cry are better men than those who do not cry. ~ Mitta Xinindlu

Like words written in the sand taken away by waves
Thousands of years of culture discovered in lost caves
Climbing to a mountain at it's highest peak
Out of no where strength when thought down and weak ~ Justin Bienvenue

If your weakness is love then you are extremely strong. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

Be your own solace ~ Malak El Halabi

You want to live?
Yes!
Then quit thinking you're gonna die! ~ Laurel Dewey

Your mission: May you continue to shine no matter the storms you have been through. ~ Karen Salmansohn

Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous ~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Things are strongest where they're broken. ~ Louise Penny

Second letter: Embrace your fear

What holds us back in life is the invisible architecture of fear. It keeps us in our comfort zones, which are, in truth, the least safe place in which to live. Indeed the greatest risk in life is taking no risk. But every time we do that which we fear , we take back the power that fear has stolen from us - for on the other side of fear lives our strength. Every time we step into the discomfort of growth and progress, we become more free. The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim. In this way, we grow both fearless and powerful, and thus are able to live the lives of our dreams. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted to be certain that their children were ready to cope with adversity, for it was surely coming to them one day whether in personal or national life. The development of character involves self-discipline and often sacrifice of one's own desires for the good of self and others. Montessori education, developed in this historical period, reflects this emphasis on the formation of the child's character. However, parents today are more likely to say their primary wish for their children is that they be happy. In pursuit of this goal they indulge their children, often unconsciously, to a degree that is startling to previous generations. All parents need to remember that true happiness comes through having character and discipline, and living a life of meaningful contribution -- not by having and doing whatever you wish. ~ Paula Polk Lillard

Deep the waves may be and cold,
But Jehovah is our refuge,
And His promise is our hold;
For the Lord Himself hath said it,
He, the faithful God and true:
"When thou comest to the waters
Thou shalt not go down, BUT THROUGH."
Seas of sorrow, seas of trial,
Bitterest anguish, fiercest pain,
Rolling surges of temptation
Sweeping over heart and brain
They shall never overflow us
For we know His word is true;
All His waves and all His billows
He will lead us safely through.
Threatening breakers of destruction,
Doubt's insidious undertow,
Shall not sink us, shall not drag us
Out to ocean depths of woe;
For His promise shall sustain us,
Praise the Lord, whose Word is true!
We shall not go down, or under,
For He saith, "Thou passest THROUGH ~ Annie Johnson Flint