Adversity Quotes - Page 17

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

The best antidote to stress is resilience... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.

The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

One of the things that I find most incredible about dad is the third act of his life.After all he accomplished in his professional career and what he's given for his country, at the point in his life where he's faced adversity, losing a son, having a helicopter crash, having a stroke, and what he's accomplished in this third act in his life, I find quite extraordinary.

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what doesn't work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity.