Adversity Quotes - Page 5

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.

May the Lord revive your spirit.

This struggle of people against their conditions this is where you find the meaning in life.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us.

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.

Hope makes life worth living.

May you find grace to endure every circumstance.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

When we no longer have the strength to keep on walking, God will carry us. His strength is enough for you and I.

You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.

In times of trouble, wait for the Lord to defend you.

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of."[From the preface.]

Sweet are the uses of adversityWhich, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

My hope fuels my determination to overcome any difficulty.

We held on to great memories. This sustains us in every moment.

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.

Sacred joy exists in any suffering.

Great tests precede great blessings.

Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it's possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process..

Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There’s no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should’ve done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn’t work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG

The greater the pressure, the greater the treasure.

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

The desert is harsh, but persevering flowers flourish.

Sometimes, you will go through awful trials in your life and then a miracle happens--God heals you. Don’t be disheartened when the people you love don’t see things like you do. There will be Pharisees in your life that will laugh it off, deny that it happened, or will mock your experience based on righteousness they think you don't possess. God won't deny you a spiritual experience because you are not a spiritual leader. He loves everyone equal. The only people that really matter in life are the people that can “see” your heart and rejoice with you.

It's essential you create a fiery will from within--harness that power of decisiveness--and choose to be your strongest self.

At crossroad, God is our guide post. He points the right path.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

The hotter the furnace the finer the gold.

You speak rather poorly of God when praising Him, or when wanting to praise Him, only during that which you perceive to be your highest of moments. That is many a reason behind unbelief altogether: the failed attempt to control God, to lower His standards to one's own level of understanding in doubt of His foresight and omniscience, His goodness and power. He wants to know if you are faithful enough to praise Him even when, to you, all seems lost.

The tree that stands to the tempest is strong;the tree that refuses to bend, the strongest.

A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.

I became a mother before becoming sick, but i never expected sickness to take away my independent mothering, so i plant trees to sooth my soul from the aching pains of losing the maternal ability to mother another child. My first born will be my only treasure, the one who knew who i was before the mess entered our lives and also the one who adapted with me to a reality we weren't certain of oh and lots of plants and plants and plants.

Endure despite the pain. The key is grace of strength.

May the grace of God keep you strong through every difficulty.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.

The best way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn them into strengths.

God controls every circumstance.

What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.

The strongest anchor is hope.

There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

Never waste your energy to dwell on the past failures and mistakes.May you find renewed energy, courage and hope to pursue new adventures.

Theodore you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. I am giving you the tools, but it is up to you to make your body.

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

The fault in our stars is the inability to see that the world falls in love with fantasy, fairytales and magic in movies. Even religion asks us to believe in the most unlikely of situations. However, despite all the great movies we love, we choose to see so many real life spiritual experiences as delusion, mania, psychosis or wishful thinking. Our society gives great devotion to the arts. However, they solve so many problems with realism, rather than giving into the possibilty of God's plan for a person, that doesn't involve their theological views about how God helps write his children's stories.

Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.

There are opportunities in every struggle. Look for these opportunities and make it great.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."]

The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.

Any meaning of life derives from amiably accepting our anonymous role in the singular order of the universe. Such gracious reception of life’s turbulences stems from willingly capitulating to whatever fomented experiences life brings us without harboring a disconsolate degree of remorse or regret.

Adversity is the adventure of time.

Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.

Life is an enduring race.

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

Endure the pain, overcome the hurt.

The strength of will is the grace of survival.

With the power of God, we can scale any wall.

Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.