Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.
- Failures are not fatal unless we go to sleep with them.
- Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success.
- Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.SenecaCommonly attributed
- Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
- For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
- Fortitude rises upon an opposition; and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.
- Friends are proved by adversity.
- Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's all about the friend who comes and stands by your side in bad times.
- God had one Son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
- God never gives strong faith without fiery trial; he will not build a strong ship, without subjecting it to very mighty storms; he will not make you a mighty warrior, if he does not intend to try your skill in battle.
- God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.
- God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
- God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
- Gold is tried by fire, fortitude by affliction.
- Great crises challenge great souls and the faith and courage of great souls become contagious.
- Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
- Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around.
- Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime—Not failure, but low aim is crime.
- Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
- Grin and bear it is the old-fashioned advice, but sing and bear it is a great deal better.
- Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.
- Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
- Happiness and true success depend upon how the troubles and difficulties of life are met.
- Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.
- Happiness requires struggle. Without struggle, the world would lack meaning and our joys would feel empty. Be grateful for your struggles, because within them is the constant opportunity for purpose.
- Hard times are opportunities to give yourself proof that even this couldn’t stop you.
- Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.
- Hard times produce your greatest gifts.
- Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.
- Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
- Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?
- He is not valiant that dares to die; but he that boldly bears calamity.
- He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
- He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.
- He that has no cross will have no crown.
- Heart troubles in God’s husbandry are not wounds, but the putting in of the spade before planting the seeds.
- Here's how to look at problems: Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!Robert H. SchullerSourced