Adversity Quotes - Page 7

If you count your blessings, you will know, they outnumber your troubles.

What happen to you are tiny matters? You can overcome every hurdle with positive attitude.

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance.

While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.

Hope is a flowing stream.

You ought to pray for strength to endure every circumstance.

Even in the deepest sinking there is the hidden purpose of an ultimate rising. Thus it is for all men from none is the source of light withheld unless he himself withdraws from it. Therefore the most important thing is not to despair.

Sadness is an invitation to God.

A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Don’t be discouraged by life’s difficulties. With hope and determination, you can triumph over any difficulties.

I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?

You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.

In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.

I was once in captivity but now I am saved by grace.

God grant me the strength to endure all things.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

My heart faint not. The Lord will strengthen my spirit.

The power of patient is the greatest survival skills.

I think there is this about the great troubles - they teach us the art of cheerfulness whereas the small ones cultivate the industry of discontent.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only what Nerchinsk had taken, but what it had given her as well.

God is our strongest anchor.

I know the Lord loves me.

My hope fuels my determination to overcome any difficulty.

Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of."[From the preface.]

No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.

Because when you give too many fucks—when you give a fuck about everyone and everything—you will feel that you’re perpetually entitled to be comfortable and happy at all times, that everything is supposed to be just exactly the fucking way you want it to be. This is a sickness. And it will eat you alive. You will see every adversity as an injustice, every challenge as a failure, every inconvenience as a personal slight, every disagreement as a betrayal.

Truth is the flower of adversity.

You will encounter many challenges in life. But you must never be defeated by the challenges.

Fire tries gold misfortune men.

In times of trouble, wait for the Lord to defend you.

When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.

Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.

Human being may fail you, but God will never forsake thee.

In every situation, there is a sacred answer. You must search and seek.

When you are standing in the middle of a storm you have two choices: Pray to God that it goes away. Or, start praying to God that he gives you the wisdom to figure out why you're standing in the middle of a storm.

Do all the works you can while you still have the strength to work.

She wears it so beautifully doesn’t she, her pain… Always smiling, always positive…. always happy to help… It’s like a garment perfectly tailored to fit the way she carries it… with a touch of grace… and the quietness of that sad smile…. All so you’d never know how heavy it really was.

She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.

Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

You can conquer any challenge with daring faith and hope.

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Use the arrows failure throws at you to hunt for success.

You have to push through every difficulty to have a breakthrough.

This struggle of people against their conditions this is where you find the meaning in life.

In the pursuit of goals, you cannot give up anytime you feel un-comfortable.

One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.