Adversity Quotes - Page 6

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

Every path hath a puddle.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

Here then is a great #‎ truth . In the #‎ pain , the #‎ agony , and the #‎ heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a #‎ refiner 's #‎ fire , and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our #‎ faith #‎ bright , #‎ intact , and #‎ strong .

The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Along the way there's going to be a lot of obstacles, a lot of adversity, a lot of people who will tell you you're not good enough. I'm here to tell you that you are. Everyone that tells you that you're not is because they didn't accomplish something.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.