Adversity Quotes - Page 9

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work.

Thomas Mann

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

A star will shine in the midst of darkness.A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt.A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt.A diamond will form in the midst of pressure.A champion will rise in the midst of hardship.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Throw a champion into the ocean, and he’ll swim.Throw a champion into the pit, and he’ll climb.Throw him off a cliff, and he’ll grow wings.Throw him into a furnace, and he’ll become gold.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A candle is at its brightest in the dark.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

In the ashes of adversity, lies opportunity.

S.L. Coelho

Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.

Debasish Mridha

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up.

Joe Biden

I've played Romeo for Juliet(But in depth)It's vignettes of silhouettes(And then read)And watched Russian roulette, yeah red SovietYet doing it simultaneouslyWhile dropping down shed oubliettesTurned around and took truth to the head thatLove is the ugliest thing too beautiful for death

Criss Jami

Any meaning of life derives from amiably accepting our anonymous role in the singular order of the universe. Such gracious reception of life’s turbulences stems from willingly capitulating to whatever fomented experiences life brings us without harboring a disconsolate degree of remorse or regret.

Kilroy J. Oldster

All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming.

Gibson

No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.

Dana Arcuri

The opportunities far outweigh the disappointments.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

Shannon L. Alder

Such fatigues and hardship as these serve to wean me more from the earth; and, I trust, will make heaven the sweeter. Formerly, when I was thus exposed to cold, rain, etc., I was ready to please myself with the thoughts of enjoying a comfortable house, a warm fire, and other outward comforts; but now these have less place in my heart (through the grace of God) and my eye is more to God for comfort. In this world I expect tribulation; and it does not now, as formerly, appear strange to me; I don’t in such seasons of difficulty flatter myself that it will be better hereafter; but rather think how much worse it might be; how much greater trials others of God’s children have endured; and how much greater are yet perhaps reserved for me. Blessed be God that he makes the comfort to me, under my sharpest trials; and scarce ever lets these thoughts be attended with terror or melancholy; but they are attended frequently with great joy.

David Brainard

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Dinos Christianopoulos

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out.

R.N. Prasher

Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.

Debasish Mridha

There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

Roy Bennett

There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.

Roy Bennett

Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us.

Meg Jay

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.

Julie-Anne

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

W Clement Stone

Your attitude in your storm determines how long you are in it

Thea Harris

No one could endure lasting adversity if it continued to have the same force as when it first hit us. We are all tied to Fortune, some by a loose and golden chain, and others by a tight one of baser metal: but what does it matter? We are all held in the same captivity, and those who have bound others are themselves in bonds - unless you think perhaps that the left-hand chain is lighter. One man is bound by high office, another by wealth; good birth weighs down some, and a humble origin others; some bow under the rule of other men and some under their own; some are restricted to one place by exile, others by priesthoods: all life is a servitude.So you have to get used to your circumstances, complain about them as little as possible, and grasp whatever advantage they have to offer: no condition is so bitter that a stable mind cannot find some consolation in it.

Seneca

What can I now do to use my misfortunes constructively, to turn my suffering to advantage by finding something worthwhile to do that I could not have done so well if these tragedies had not occurred?

James C. Crumbaugh

I love those who can smile in trouble...

Leonardo da Vinci

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Richard Llewellyn

Endurance is spiritual.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Your blessings far outnumber your troubles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She will never let an illness, a diagnosis, or a prediction, define her. She doesn't want sympathy, because that type of attention is not her goal. She'd rather you see the woman who smiles in the face of adversity, than be the one who begs you to see her frown.

Alfa H

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.

Rosemary Rawlins

If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.

Shannon L. Alder

[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism. In fact, in case after case, the opposite occurs: In the earthquake and fire of 1906, Jack London observed: "never, in all San Francisco's history, were her people so kind and courteous as on this night of terror." "We did not panic. We coped," a British psychiatrist recalled after the July 7, 2005, London subway bombings. We often assume that such humanity among survivors, what author Rebecca Solnit has called "a paradise built in hell," is an exception after catastrophes, specific to a particular culture or place. In fact, it is the rule.

Jonathan M. Katz

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.

Shannon L. Alder

We cleave our way through the mountains until the interstate dips into a wide basin brimming with blue sky, broken by dusty roads and rocky saddles strung out along the southern horizon. This is our first real glimpse of the famous big-sky country to come, and I couldn't care less. For all its grandeur, the landscape does not move me. And why should it? The sky may be big, it may be blue and limitless and full of promise, but it's also really far away. Really, it's just an illusion. I've been wasting my time. We've all been wasting our time. What good is all this grandeur if it's impermanent, what good all of this promise if it's only fleeting? Who wants to live in a world where suffering is the only thing that lasts, a place where every single thing that ever meant the world to you can be stripped away in an instant? And it will be stripped away, so don't fool yourself. If you're lucky, your life will erode slowly with the ruinous effects of time or recede like the glaciers that carved this land, and you will be left alone to sift through the detritus. If you are unlucky, your world will be snatched out from beneath you like a rug, and you'll be left with nowhere to stand and nothing to stand on. Either way, you're screwed. So why bother? Why grunt and sweat and weep your way through the myriad obstacles, why love, dream, care, when you're only inviting disaster? I'm done answering the call of whippoorwills, the call of smiling faces and fireplaces and cozy rooms. You won't find me building any more nests among the rose blooms. Too many thorns.

Jonathan Evison

Character and Professionalism can only be seen when faced with adversity…

Thaddeus L Edwards

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

She built her character with the adversity she had faced, so she could live the best of her life for the rest of life.

Nikki Rowe

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

Nelson Mandela

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Edward Young

Adversity precedes spiritual rebirth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity is a golden treasure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity is a spiritual awaken in every soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In times of trouble, fear not! God will deliver you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be grateful for every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't lose faith. Be strong in spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Cultivating an attitude of gratitude begins with counting your blessings. In simpler terms, gratitude is expressing thanks for gifts we receive. Genuine gratitude helps us to see the little things in life that are often overlooked, yet so precious.

Dana Arcuri

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

Shannon L. Alder

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

Jim George

I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes great faith to fight the odds in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of patient is the greatest survival skills.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the midst of the disappointment, we find faith as an anchor!

Lailah Gifty Akita

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