Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.George EliotSourced
- In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
- In a fair gale every fool may sail, but wise behaviour in a storm commends the wisdom of the pilot.
- In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
- In all human activities, particularly in all matters of business, times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.
- In any case, you must not confuse a single failure with a final defeat.
- In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.
- In difficult moments do not despair or retreat: any situation can be turned around.
- In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.
- In God's world, for those who are in earnest there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
- In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
- In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
- In Prosperity prepare for Adversity. It is both wiser and easier to collect winter stores in summer. In prosperity favours are cheap and friends are many.
- In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
- In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.Horatius BonarCommonly attributed
- In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
- In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
- In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
- Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but, by ascending a little, you may often overlook it altogether.
- Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle.
- Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
- It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you – inside or out.
- It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
- It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure.
- It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
- It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible. One is never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause.
- It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
- It is easy to do anything in victory. It is in defeat that a man reveals himself.
- It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.Theodore RooseveltSourced
- It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
- It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.J. K. RowlingSourced
- It is no such heinous matter to fall afflicted, as, being down, to lie dejected.
- It is not ease, but effort,--not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
- It is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities but difficulties, that make men.
- It is not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.
- It is not the so-called blessings of life, its sunshine and calm and pleasant experiences that make men, but its rugged experiences, its storms and tempests and trials. Early adversity is often a blessing in disguise.