Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- The #1 predictor of success is how you respond to failure and feedback. Do you give up or get up? Do you defend or double down?
- The art of living is more wrestling than dancing — teaching a man to stay on his feet, on guard and unruffled, so that whatsoever falls upon him he may be ready for it.
- The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.
- The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.
- The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
- The best way out is always through.
- The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong.
- The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
- The challenge in front of you is an indication of the power within you.
- The deceitful charms of prosperity destroy more souls than all the scourges of adversity.
- The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
- The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.
- The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure.
- The eternal stars shine out again, as soon as it is dark enough.
- The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.
- The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
- The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.
- The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
- The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
- The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
- The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
- The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.
- The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
- The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
- The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
- The less pain we tolerate, the more average we become.
- The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
- The mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road.
- The more powerful an obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it.
- The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honour which set off virtue.
- The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
- The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.
- The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'
- The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
- The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.
- The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
- The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.
- The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.