Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
- It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.
- It is only when it is bent that the bow shows its strength.
- It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.
- It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
- It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
- It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.
- It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am.
- It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.
- It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
- It needs some skill to find out difficulties, but more to find a way out of them.
- It’s easy to be mentally strong when things go well. But true mental strength becomes apparent in the midst of adversity.
- It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down
- It's not getting to the wall that counts; it's what you do after you hit it.
- It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.
- It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
- It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
- It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.
- I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Joys are our wings, sorrows are our spurs.
- Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.
- Just remember that even the most successful lives have chapters of failure.
- Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
- Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. — To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.
- Let your failures refine you, not define you.
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
- Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf
- Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.
- Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
- Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
- Life leaves its bootprints all over us — we just have to keep getting back up.
- Life may take everything out of my days, but the real things remain. You may destroy my castles, but I have the timbers to build ten thousand more.
- Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
- Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
- Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
- Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
- Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.