Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
- Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.T.S. EliotSourced
- Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.
- Opposition is what we want and must have, to be good for anything. Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
- Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.
- Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure.
- Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.
- Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We can attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we can persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
- Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Our greatest glory here in the Packer organization was not in never falling, but in rising every time we fell.
- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
- Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
- Our strength grows out of our weakness.
- Out of difficulties grow miracles.
- Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven.
- Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
- Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Pain is part of life. Accept it. Live through it. Learn from it. Then growth will show up quietly, almost as if by accident.
- Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
- Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Perhaps there is no surer ground for the foundation of a friendship than a shared time of trouble.
- Plants grow weak without wind.
- Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
- Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
- Problems are the price you pay for progress.
- Prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
- Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
- Prosperity is good; but, to those who can stand it, adversity is better. God has revealed the wisdom of the heavenly world oftener to men in dungeons than to men in palaces.
- Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
- Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.Francis BaconSourced
- Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue: it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
- Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.Publius SyrusCommonly attributed
- Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
- Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
- Remember that hope is a powerful weapon even when all else is lost.
- Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.
- Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
- Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.