Adversity Quotes - Page 4

The opportunities far outweigh the disappointments.

You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.

We see the greatness of God in times of great challenge.

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

Integrity, wisdom, skill, intelligence – such things are forged in adversity.

If you fall-and trust me, you will- make sure you fall on your back. Because if you fall on your back, you can see up. And if you can see up, you can get up. And you can keep going and going and going.

adversity is a great tool to self discovery.

Choose to dwell on timeless hope.

It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us.Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but I actually mean sad.

Don’t be a victim of circumstances. Choose victory by gracious endurance.

It is only the Creator that can set thy soul free from every struggle.

Without darkness, we may never know how bright the stars shine. Without battles, we could not know what victory feels like. Without adversity, we may never appreciate the abundance in our lives. Be thankful, not only for the easy times, but for every experience that has made you who you are.

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

Your mind is greater than your problems,your heart is greater than your troubles,your soul is greater than your temptations,and your God is greater than your obstacles.

You can never be defeated in life, you are a learner.

You speak rather poorly of God when praising Him, or when wanting to praise Him, only during that which you perceive to be your highest of moments. That is many a reason behind unbelief altogether: the failed attempt to control God, to lower His standards to one's own level of understanding in doubt of His foresight and omniscience, His goodness and power. He wants to know if you are faithful enough to praise Him even when, to you, all seems lost.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?

Don’t quit when you encounter an obstacle.

Your blessings far outnumber your troubles.

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Adversity is test of faith.

There are a few things in life that occur, that you don't ask for, that are just dealt to you.These things can define you or you can define yourself through them.I elect to define myself through overcoming what has been dealt to me in my life.It took thirty-one years and two generations of tweaking to get my first perfect ending.Now I am going to work on my next one.

The more I learn the less I know but once you learn adversity is opportunity all you do is grow.

You ought to endure eagerly every situation with hope.

Marriages can endure any difficulty with unfailing love and dedication.

Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate humankind to living by instinct. A person who lives by instinct might survive for an enviable period, but they will never live a heroic existence. Every hero’s story commences with an unsatisfied and optimistic person venturing out from the comfortable confines of their common day world, facing forces of fabulous power, and fighting a magnificent personal battle. The greatest traditional heroes were warriors whom survived on the battlefield and learned valuable lessons of honor, love, loyalty, and courage. Heroic warriors and spiritual seekers undertook a rigorous quest, an enduring ordeal that enabled them to transcend their own personhood’s shallow desire merely to survive. By enduring hardships, experiencing breathtaking encounters with the physical world, and undergoing a spiritual renaissance, the hero gains a hard-won sense self-discovery, comprehends his or her place in society, and accepts their role as a teacher. A hero is a bearer of light, wisdom, and charity. The hero reenters society and shares their culmination of knowledge by devoting their life to teaching other people.

You don't win battles you walk away from.

I had long believed adversity was the greatest teacher, but I learnt that nothing teaches you more about life than death.

Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a hand behind us that sets to right all imbalances. Why do you think the saints seldom had the temporal power that we mistakenly identify with the fruits of justice? Do you think they needed it, or cared?

Adversity is the test of strength in every soul.

The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or waste your time trying to look right, you will never achieve contentment and emotional balance. People you encounter in life can’t be controlled by you. You only have control of yourself. Build your life around a relationship with a higher power and achieving what you’re passionate about. When you let go of what you can’t control, true peace can then enter your life. This is the path to achieving emotional balance.

Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.

Reach for the stars, not your fears.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.

The only people I am aware of who don’t have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.

Through storms you are able to get all the colors you need to paint the rainbow.

Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Never complain, proclaim positive-words.Then, you will possess the divine grace for a change situation.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.

Freedom is my soul-spirit set free from any chains.

The strong version of the adversity hypothesis might be true, but only if we add caveats: For adversity to be maximally beneficial, it should happen at the right time (young adulthood), to the right people (those with the social and psychological resources to rise to challenges and find benefits), and to the right degree (not so severe as to cause PTSD).

The further you are in the wilderness, the closer the Promised Land is.

Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.

One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.

Down you mongrel Death! Back into your kennel!

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

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.

We dare to live.

Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.