Adversity Quotes - Page 10

Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.

If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

Adversity makes men remember God.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

Through adversity we find our heroes.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another.

To live is to war with trolls.

When we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the fulfillment of righteous responsibilities, we should remember that when we are involved in the work of the Lord, the obstacles before us are never as great as the power behind us. We should reach out and climb. Handholds will only be found by hands that are outstretched. Footholds are only for feet that are on the move.

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure.

Only entropy comes easy.