Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
- Honest questions, sincere doubts, and deep hurts can draw you closer to God than you’ve ever been before.
- Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
- Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
- Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
- Hope, like the stars of evening, shines the sweetest and the brightest when life seems the gloomiest and darkest.
- How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
- I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
- I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
- I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
- I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn’t run away – I rose right where I’d been knocked down. And then that’s how you get to know yourself.
- I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
- I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.
- I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
- I have learned more of God, and of myself, by one week's suffering than by all the prosperity of a long lifetime.
- I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
- I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
- I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
- I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
- I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.
- I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
- Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.
- If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.
- If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.
- If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.
- If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering.
- If there is ever a time to be ambitious, it is not when ambition is easy, but when it is hard. Fight in darkness; fight when you are down; die hard, and you won't die at all.
- If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
- If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
- If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power.
- If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.
- If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
- If you have no struggles, you’ll have no strength.
- If you learn from defeat, then you haven't really lost!
- If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
- If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.A. P. J. Abdul KalamCommonly attributed
- If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems too heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is He who carries the cross that is carrying the burden.
- If your problem is too big for you, it’s just the right size for God.
- If you’re struggling, you’re learning.
- If you’re truly determined, every obstacle becomes a stepping stone.