335 Quotes About Strength-through-adversity

I have found that the people whom society has deemed to be the weakest are inevitably the strongest.

Exceptional people don't shun tests of their strength and determination -- they relish them.

...the thin straight line of her nose, the painful sharpness of her jaw, how she held herself with such stillness. Was it because she was afraid of breaking? Or because she had been broken so many times that the idea no longer frightened her?

Strength is not how many times you have fallen but how well you can rise again after being defeated.

I believe it is supposed to get difficult - your belief in your dream life is supposed to be tested. Remember, just beyond the storm is the island; if you really want to get there then fight for it and stay the course.

I felt a thrill—a new civil affinity budding in my dreams and in the brick-and-mortar city, simultaneously: that we, the people, were awakening to the truth that a bundle of twigs is inconceivably strong.

Don't you ever forget my worthless pride

Weakness doesn't mean your'e going to cry and crying is not a sign of weakness.

If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne," said Gilbert in the tone that meant "danger ahead." "Then you would be very unwise," rejoined Anne hastily. "I'm sure no life can be properly developed and rounded out without some trial and sorrow--though I suppose it is only when we are pretty comfortable that we admit it...