Adversity Quotes - Page 12

When your steps are destined... you can trust that your journey has a variety of processes. These processes will be disguised with a perfect strife; however, the struggle is pivotal in breeding greatness..." (T.luard)

Our sufferings produce strength of spirit.

Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.

Flowers have to stretch to bloom.

you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

Stay strong in spirit, be patient and you will overcome any situation.

Whenever, you face a challenge, it is time for a change.

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

We trust and rely on God at all times.

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.

A diamond is pressure's masterpiece.

A joyful soul is the choice to dwell on amazing gift of life than the challenges.

We came into existence with nothing. And, when our spirit departs, we will take nothing out of world.

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

It is not beauty that makes you strong--it is adversity.

You shall not be afraid of the adversary. God will be your strong fortress.

Adversity or opportunity is university.

God takes us through the fires to refine us like gold.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to grow proudly into the sky, can do without bad weather and storms: whether unkindness and opposition from without, whether some sort of hatred, envy, obstinacy, mistrust, severity, greed and violence do not belong to the favouring circumstances without which a great increase even in virtue is hardly possible. The poison which destroys the weaker nature strengthens the stronger – and he does not call it poison, either.

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the first action to conquer it.

Are you aware of who you really are in relationship to the very God who created the Universe, who scattered the stars and aligned the planets? Only to those who remember and realize that they are literally spirit children of a God who knows and loves them, can the fire of refinement be welcome. Otherwise, pain and adversity are just that, pain and adversity. Fire doesn’t purify; it only burns.

Use your tears to water the garden of your dreams.

Every challenge makes us to humble our selves. We learn to know and depend on our Creator.

Shatter your fears and you will shatter records.

Without adversity, we will fail to exercise our faith.

Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

You can victory overcome every situation by faith and hope.

As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles.

The anchor of my life is the grace of God.

Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Do not quit. Hang on the wings of hope.

May the living have hope.

I am empowered by every problem to seek the power of God.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

I am grateful for every adversity, I learn to depend more on God.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Those things that hurt instruct.

The soul awakens in times of difficulty by divine grace.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

You ought to pray, read and mediate on word of God. These acts lead to the greatest spiritual awaken.

It takes darkness to be aware of the light.

In times of adversity, our only anchor is hope.

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.

There are things you should never give up on like your convictions and ambitions but most importantly…you should never give up on you. Keep making those sacrifices, keep running that race, keep advancing beyond your struggles to your eventual goal. You will deeply value your triumphs, if they’re not handed to you. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is worth having or attaining without labor and toil. So when you’re in your darkest hour and the road seems endless, no matter what, never ever give up on you…because only you will see you through. ~Jason Versey

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Adversity purifies the spirit and refines the soul.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

With positive mindset you can graciously overcome any circumstance.