Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
- You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
- You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
- You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.
- You don’t build psychological resilience by feeling good all the time. You build psychological resilience by getting better at feeling bad.
- You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
- You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
- You don’t realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.
- You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down.
- You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.
- You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don’t whine! Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
- You have to do hard things to create your own meaning in life.
- You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
- You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
- You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.
- You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
- You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
- You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
- You will fail. It’s inevitable. It’s what you do with it.
- You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
- You will not find toughness in a comfortable environment.
- Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.
- Your mental attitude determines what you make of it, either a stepping stone or stumbling block.
- Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
- Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
- Your problem isn’t the problem, it’s your attitude about the problem.
- Your problems are good. They are power in disguise.
- Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.
- Your struggles have not been a waste. They've come to strengthen you. And grow your capacity to lead - and win.
- You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
- That which does not kill me will make me stronger.
- There is no education like adversity.Benjamin DisraeliSourced
- Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.Zig ZiglarCommonly attributed
- Everything looks like failure in the middle.Rosabeth Moss KanterSourced
- The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
- Our biggest influence comes from our different reactions to a storm.
- The way we see the problem is the problem.
- Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems you don't get any seeds.Norman Vincent PealeCommonly attributed
- A man's success should be measured, not so much by the position he has reached as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Every day you do the right thing, you are passing the test for God to do something great in your life.