Adversity Quotes - Page 19

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

Everyone deals with adversity. It's how you bounce back from it.

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety.

Every burden is a blessing.

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.

Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else.

Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it