Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
- The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike.
- The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.
- The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
- The tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness.M. Scott PeckCommonly attributed
- The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
- The true man is revealed in difficult times.
- The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
- The true way of softening one's troubles is to solace those of others.
- The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
- The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
- The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.
- The virtue of prosperity is temperance, but the virtue of adversity is fortitude; and the last is the more sublime attainment.
- The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life.
- The way we respond to challenges determines the stories we’ll tell one day.
- The winds of misfortune always bring some seeds of opportunity.
- The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
- The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
- The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
- The wound is the place where the light enters you.
- There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
- There are no crown-wearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below.
- There can be no failure for the man who “still fights on.”
- There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
- There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
- There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
- There is no failure. Only feedback.
- There is no fiercer hell than failure in a great object.
- There is no seamanship on a smooth sea and in a fair wind. The storm is what makes the mariner.
- There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
- There is no time so miserable but a man may be true.
- There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.
- There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.
- There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
- There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
- There’s meaning in every failure. Find it.
- There’s no such thing as a “bad experience,” only an experience that we fail to utilize.
- There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
- Things are not so painful and difficult of themselves, but our weakness or cowardice makes them so.Michel de MontaigneSourced