Adversity Quotes - Page 38

• Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you're made of.

  Andrew Asnes

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity.

  Frederick Ferre

  Opportunity, Moments, Disarray

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• It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

  Sophocles

  Life, Pain, Responsibility

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

  Sophocles

  Grief, Trouble, Glad

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• I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.

  Joe Tye

  Compassion, Choices, Grace

  Joe Tye (1997). “Never Fear, Never Quit: A Story of Courage and Perseverance”

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• Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Real, True Evil, Heaven

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• In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.

  Sarah Wilson

  Positive, Thinking, Hard Times

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• Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

  Jon Gordon

  Stay Positive, Detours, Outcomes

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• know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain,
  You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'.
  And the stresses of life can take you off the right path,
  Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff...
  We gotta hold it down so we can move on past
  All adversities, so we can get through fast.

  Q-Tip

  Stress, Rap, Moving

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• Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

  Michael Arndt

  Challenges, Self Improvement, World

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• Through adversity, not only are we given opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Motivational, Opportunity, Light

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• In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Race, Survival, Done

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• Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts.

  Richard Branson

  Effort, Survival, Attention

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• In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Stronger, Way, Becoming

  "Come What May, and Love It". www.lds.org. October 2008.

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• If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Growth, Approach, Hardest Times

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• The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Successful, Way, Majors

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• As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger. Then you will be better able to help others -those who are working, in their turn, to find a safe harbor from the storms that rage about them.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Helping Others, Storm, Stronger

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• A good friend, who knows whereof he speaks, has observed of trials, ‘If it’s fair, it is not a true trial!’ That is, without the added presence of some inexplicableness and some irony and injustice, the experience may not stretch us or lift us sufficiently. The crucifixion of Christ was clearly the greatest injustice in human history, but the Savior bore up under it with majesty and indescribable valor.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Good Friend, Crucifixion Of Christ, Trials

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• Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Winter, Land, Spurs

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• How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Art, Pain

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• The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Giving, Needs, Affliction

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• All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Moving, Missionary, Easier

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• For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just
  following our darkest hours.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Time, Faithful, Missionary

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• What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, Fall, Writing

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