Adversity Quotes - Page 28

It's easy to feel happy when things are going your way. The trick is to remain inspired in difficult situations. That's where life stops being a game of chance and becomes one of skill. That's when, if you can stay serene in the face of adversity, you get back on track in half the time it might otherwise take.

I have worked in the homes of many successful people and have seen firsthand that everyone fails in life, but failure can be a gift if you don't give up and are willing to learn, improve, and grow because of it. You see, failure often serves as a defining moment, a crossroads on the journey of your life. It gives you a test designed to measure your courage, perseverance, commitment, and a dedication. Are you a pretender who gives up after a little adversity or a contender who keeps getting up after getting knocked down?

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger.

Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing else but my shadow, yet God, as being very tender of me, hath suffered me to be molested, but would with one Scripture or another, strengthen me against all; insomuch that I have often said, Were it awful, I could pray for greater trouble, for the greater comfort's sake.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.

Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young men who navigate adversity and conflict with an incomplete emotional skill set. Whether boys and later men have chosen to resist or conform to this masculine norm, there is loneliness, anxiety, and pain.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

When the Lord instills hope and faith and peace and assurance in people, they can bring great things to pass. This, then, is often what we should look for when we ask for help-not a miracle to solve our problem for us, but a miracle inside, to help us come to the solution ourselves, with the Lord's help and the Lord's power.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage - my life is a study of that.

A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread.

When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life... We are meant to learn and grow through opposition, through meeting our challenges, and through teaching others to do the same... the Lord will not only consecrate our afflictions for our gain, but He will use them to bless the lives of countless others.

When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life.

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.