Adversity Quotes - Page 3

• Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Growth

  Charles Stanley (1991). “How to Handle Adversity”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heartbreak, God, Disappointment

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.46, Discovery House

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• If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

  Bernie Siegel

  Encouragement, Nature, Watches

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

  Malcolm X

  Heartbreak, Time, Loss

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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  Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Success, Time

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• Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

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• Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

  Tom Cochrane

  Best Work

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

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• I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

  Lou Holtz

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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  The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yoga

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• The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

  Samuel Smiles

  Discovery, Sorrow, Great Inventions

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.480, The Floating Press

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• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Dark, Tough Times, Uplifting In Hard Times

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

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• Tough times never last, but tough people do.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

  Epictetus

  Life, Education, Teaching

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.499, Lulu.com

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• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

  John Churton Collins

  Love, Friendship, Atheist

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• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

  Moliere

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Christian, Life And Love

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• A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

  Saadi

  Men, Prosperity, Insensible

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• We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

  Frank A. Clark

  Spiritual, Christian Inspirational, Political

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