Adversity Quotes - Page 5

In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself.

Nobody can see the trouble I see, nobody knows my sorrow.

When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

Thoughts are things. Negativity is what kills you... It's tough to do, but you've got to work at living, you know? Most people work at dying, but anybody can die; the easiest thing on this earth is to die. But to live takes guts; it takes energy, vitality, it takes thought. . . . We have so many negative influences out there that are pulling us down. . . . You've got to be strong to overcome these adversities . . . that's why I never stop.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

In times of uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call; a common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America’s finest special operations forces to serve his country and the American people, and to protect their way of life. I am that man.

For every worry under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, hurry and find it. If there be none, then never mind it.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

Your problems aren't too big -- perhaps your worship is too small.