Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.
- Meanwhile, hold fast to this thought, and grip it close: yield not to adversity; trust not to prosperity; keep before your eyes the full scope of Fortune’s power, as if she would surely do whatever is in her power to do.
- Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
- Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
- Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us by the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
- Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.
- Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
- Move toward challenges that will toughen and improve you.
- Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
- Never get discouraged at difficulties... When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn.
- Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!
- Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.Dag HammarskjöldSourced
- Never, never! Surmounting difficulties gives new strength, new ideas, more energies, and creates heroes who otherwise would have been only mere ciphers on life’s battlefields.
- No life can be permanently ruined because no living conscious person lacks choice, perception and determination. No matter how bad things get, you are always able to choose to make them better.
- No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
- No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it well, ever loses his self-respect.George Bernard ShawCommonly attributed
- No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
- No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on and it will be better tomorrow.
- No one has the right to brand you as a failure except yourself.
- No one will dispute me when I say that the only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn’t matter how hard you hit back. It’s about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That’s how you win.
- No resistance, no growth.
- No scar is dishonorable which is a mark of our courage.
- No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
- Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course.
- Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.
- Nothing gets stronger without resistance.
- Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.
- Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity.
- Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
- Obstacles are the cost of greatness.
- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
- On the occasion of every accident (event) that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
- One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.
- One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
- One must have chaos within one to give birth to a dancing star.
- One must reflect deeply on the nature of the adversity, and on how it may be converted into an instrument for growth.Arun ShourieSourced
- One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.