Quotes about adversity
adversity blessing sometimes
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. Charles Caleb Colton
adversity extremes knows
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
adversity prosperity shrinks
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
adversity half known
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
adversity doe needs
Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them. Charles Stanley
adversity fire secret
Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible. Charles Spurgeon
adversity suffering
But we must not suffer over the suffering. Alan Watts
adversity opportunity leader
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving. Chip Conley
adversity self challenges
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. Chiang Kai-shek
adversity losing-everything privilege
I have had the privilege of losing everything. Byron Katie
adversity rude police
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. Bryan Adams
adversity artist treasure
I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. Catherine Drinker Bowen
adversity past thinking
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard. Cal Ripken, Jr.
adversity people observation
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success. C. Northcote Parkinson
adversity men crosses
A man I am cross'd with adversity. William Shakespeare
adversity history generations
Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne. Charles William Eliot
adversity adapted havens
Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet. Aimee Mullins
adversity stories reactions
It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
adversity suffering true-knowledge
True knowledge comes only through suffering. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
adversity men differences
The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure. Edwin Louis Cole
adversity fate cups
It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
adversity faces defeat
I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did, Aaron Schock
adversity school trouble
Adversity is a good school. Charlotte Bronte
adversity lasts camels
It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back. Charles Dickens
adversity choices excuse
Make choices-not excuses. Charles J. Givens
adversity destiny detours
Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny. Beth Moore
adversity men saved
In adversity man is saved by hope. Bill Vaughan
adversity bleak kids looked year
We've battled adversity all year and have been in those kind of situations. Our kids know they're never out of a game. But it looked pretty bleak there for a bit.
adversity face stuff
We responded to adversity and that's important because we're going to face this kind of stuff when we're on the road. Ron Wilson
adversity deal excited face wins
When we face adversity, we don't crumble. That's what we should be excited about. Wins come when you deal with adversity well. Ricky Williams
adversity good happens work
What happens when adversity strikes? And it will, and we'll have to work through those issues. It won't always be the good times in the preseason when everyone's patting you on the back. Mike Sherman
adversity clothes storm
You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear. Edgar Guest
adversity opportunity
Out of adversity comes opportunity. Benjamin Franklin