Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.
- Say not that this or that thing came to thwart you; it only came to test you.
- Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
- Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
- Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Snowplow parents prepare the road for kids. Responsible parents prepare kids for the road. Resilience is built not by eliminating struggle, but by normalizing it. Teach kids to see obstacles as temporary hurdles.
- Some falls are means the happier to rise.
- Sometimes adversity creates an environment for good things to grow.
- Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
- Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
- Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
- Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
- Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers.
- Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.
- Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to re-evaluate.
- Sorrow has not been given us for sorrow's sake, but always as a lesson from which we are to learn somewhat, which once learned, it ceases to be sorrow.
- Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
- Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing.
- Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of.
- Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.
- Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.
- Storms make trees take deeper roots.
- Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
- Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.
- Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.
- Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.
- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
- Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
- Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.
- Suffering becomes beautiful when any one bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility, but through greatness of mind.
- Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.
- Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed. No flower can bloom in paradise which is not transplanted from Gethsemane.
- Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
- Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument
- Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
- Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of self-confidence.
- Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
- That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
- That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.