Adversity Quotes - Page 28

• One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Journey, Keys

  John C. Maxwell (1997). “Your Roadmap for Success”

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• Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Rights, Self, Justice

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• Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Greatness

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• Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Inspiration, Sunshine, Victory

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.22, Image

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• But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Teacher, Mean, Kids

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• For most of the universe's life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.

  Frank Beddor

  Struggle, Soldier, Abuse

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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• When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Fire, Flames, Order

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Soul, Promise, Mind

  Jerry Bridges, Gerald Bridges, Jack Kuhatschek (1989). “You Can Trust God”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.

  Jerry Bridges

  Attitude, Heart, Humble

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.222, NavPress

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• If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Believe, Work Out, Trust In God

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Trusting God”, p.23, NavPress

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• Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

  Karen White

  Song, Heart, Doe

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• Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Anger, Flames, Order

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• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Courage, Yoga

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Positive, Work, Opportunity

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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

  J. K. Rowling

  Positive, Our Relationship, Know Yourself

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• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Jobs, Lying

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 08, 2013

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• Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Rain, Common Sense

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, North Atlantic Books

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• Failure is success if we learn from it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Crush

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

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• If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

  Paul Newman

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Character

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