Adversity Quotes - Page 29

Out of adversity comes opportunity.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

Building discipline, earning respect and overcoming adversity are all parts of a winning game plan. If you don't have a game plan, where are you going? When I'm talking about a game plan, I'm talking about how you go about being the best player you can be and how you go about being successful in life.

Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.

In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.

Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.