Finding Strength in Difficult Times Quotes

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

With faith, I know that everything will be taken care of. Even the difficult times become learning experiences to help make my faith stronger.

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.

My smile will always be broken, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to get to do what I get to do.

Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

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

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

If it weren't for the dark days, we wouldn't know what it is to walk in the light.

My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

It's amazing when tragedy strikes, how strong you find that you are, and I'd seen other people go through horrible things. And I just thought, "Wow, I would be a complete mess," and then suddenly when it happens, you realize you had more strength than you knew and it helps you to get through.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

No matter how dark and hopeless a situation might seem, never stop praying.

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.

When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.