Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
- Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.
- After brokenness, our lives can be more fruitful, more purposeful, and more joyful.
- All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
- All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Always remember that failure is an event, not a person.
- Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
- Amateurs give up at the first sign of trouble and assume they’re failures. Professionals see failure as part of the path to growth and mastery.
- An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming.
- An inflexible tree breaks in a storm.
- An obstacle is not a roadblock — it is an inspiration for creative detours.
- Any one can hold the helm, when the sea is calm.
- Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.
- As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
- As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.
- As we sometimes hold a crooked stick over the fire to straighten it, so God holds us over the fire of affliction to make us more straight and upright.
- As you may know, I was basically fired from Apple when I was 30 and was invited to come back 12 years later so that was difficult when it happened but maybe the best thing that could ever happen to me. […] you just move on, life goes on and you learn from it.
- Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.
- Attitude gives you no advantage during good times because, during good times, everybody has a good attitude.
- Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
- Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
- Be thankful for your failures. They reveal the winning strategies.
- Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
- Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
- But he who dares not grasp the thorn. Should never crave the rose.
- But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!
- Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.
- Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
- Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
- Character is developed in the tough times, when we’re not getting our way but we keep doing the right thing.
- Character is the virtue of hard times.
- Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
- Circumstances are things round about; we are in them, not under them.
- Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.