Adversity Quotes - Page 11

You’ve gotta believe that the split second that changed your life—the brief moment that took your leg and bruised your melon—can’t be the defining moment of your life. It was just an instant, a flash. Just one second out of millions of seconds. It doesn’t get to own you.

Stumbling towards greatness is better than sprinting towards mediocrity.

If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don’t think about their looks, the intimate moments or their personality. Now, think about how they made you feel, how they improved your life and what virtues they possess that push you to want to become better. Did they bring you closer to God? Did they bring you to your life mission? Did they ever lie to you, betray you or made it impossible for you to feel comfortable speaking your mind? When you remove all the shine from a diamond, it becomes a glass rock. What value is it then? See beneath the surface and you will know who your future is with.

You must never surrender to any defeat.

In times of your need, you will know your true friends.

When you encounter unexpected situation, don’t panic. Close our eyes, take a deep breath and pray. It will relief you of any anxiety.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

Instead of being frustrated by adversity, our mind focuses on the adventure of creativity with our thoughts. What a glorious paradise?

God’s grace gives you strength to overcome any situation.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

It is a strange thing that the human species can only go three days without water and three weeks without food, before the body dies. Yet, so many people can go years hanging onto pain and feeling emotionally dead inside. I suppose if it was the other way around more people would go to school to be morticians because of the booming business, or pastors would have to hand out Valium with the sacrament, just to keep the census high.

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...

Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires questing. Questing provides the meaning that we seek, a purpose to justify the inevitable struggle to live knowing the absurdity that we must die.

And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up—and when you cannot see the shoreline, always putting one hand, one word, in front of the other.

When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.

Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances?

Father, be my comfort in this dark times.

Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Do not give in to fear and lose hope. Be strong!

If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God's sake? But God has so ordained, that we may learn to bear with one another's burdens, for there is no man without fault, no man without burden, no man sufficient to himself nor wise enough. Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity -- adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.

The strength of will is the grace of survival.

May you find the strength to courageously live through any situation.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

Life is an enduring race.

When we no longer have the strength to keep on walking, God will carry us. His strength is enough for you and I.

May you find the grace of triumph over any situation.

Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.

Adversity tests what the soul can endure.

We only fall on our face to learn how to rise on our feet.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

When faced with a difficult situation, do not panic but pray!

Growth is ugly, it's hideous, it's all the things we don't like but my god, once you walk through the fire of confusion you will feel burning passion within your flame.

Adversity is the hidden treasures of life.

God controls every circumstance.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

What you endured was a sign of what you would become.

In the midst of the storm, my only anchor is the Saviour.

Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.

Every challenge you encounter is part of the life’s journey. The challenges must be overcome for the vision to be fulfilled.

Unless a man has been kicked around a little you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.

We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit

Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

Behind your darkest fears lie your brightest rewards.

Without adversity, we never find who we are.

The soul gets tougher with every endure situation.

Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

You did anything to bury me, but you forgot that I was a seed.

If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?

I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.

Don’t worry, pray!

The soul of a man is strong enough to withstand any adversity.

If you knew the golden treasures of adversity, you will bravely embrace it.

The courage to keep trying is willingness to triumph.

The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow.

From rocks come gold.From coal comes diamonds.From oysters come pearls.From caterpillars come butterflies.From adversity come the great.