Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- Circumstances form the character; but like petrifying waters they harden while they form.
- Complaining increases the weight of the burden.
- Constant misfortune brings this one blessing: to whom it always assails, it eventually fortifies.
- Dark times are not hopeless times.
- Darkness may indeed throw a shadow over the outer vision; but there is no cloud, however dark, that can keep the sunlight of hope from the trustful soul.
- Darkness will teach you how to see. Falling will teach you how to rise.
- Defeat is a destructive force only when it is accepted as failure!
- Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
- Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
- Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
- Difficulties are footholds toward maturity.
- Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence, — as a compliment from God.
- Difficulties are great or small in proportion as you are great or small.
- Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.Ernest ShackletonSourced
- Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
- Difficulties are things that show what men are.
- Difficulties break some men but make others.
- Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.
- Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
- Difficulties may surround our path, but if the difficulties be not in ourselves, they may generally be overcome.
- Difficulties need not be disastrous; defeats need not be fatal; failures need not be final.
- Difficulties show a person’s character.
- Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
- Disappointment should always be taken as a stimulant, and never viewed as a discouragement.
- Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
- Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
- Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses.
- Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
- Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
- Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.
- Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.
- Don’t be determined to never have problems. Be determined to stay full of joy in the midst of your problems.
- Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up.
- Don’t drift into self-pity because it doesn’t solve any problems.
- Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.Bruce LeeSourced
- Don’t hope for a life without problems. There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.
- Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you.
- Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible
- Don't make a tragedy of a simple failure. Study your capabilities first, and if you have overrated their strength, try again, going more slowly.
- During tough times, attitude separates successful people from those who do not succeed.