Adversity Quotes
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If you have your mind in the right direction, and your heart is full of the right kind of stuff, you'll succeed and you'll triumph over adversity, over really anything.
Milo Ventimiglia -
In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
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Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
Ruth Gordon -
If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.
Bill Clinton -
Art is man's refuge from adversity.
Menander -
These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son of God and to weaken your resolve to keep your promises to Him. These trials are often camouflaged, making them difficult to identify. They take root in our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, our sensitivities, or in those things that matter most to us. A real but manageable test for one can be a fiery trial for another.
Neil L. Andersen -
Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to meet all deadlines for ensuring safer pesticides use under the new Food Quality Protection Act.
Carol Browner -
You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.
Erik Weihenmayer
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Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
Stephen Covey -
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Soren Kierkegaard -
No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.
Brigham Young -
Through adversity we find our better self.
Michelle Waterson -
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
Herodotus -
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Thomas Carlyle
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Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
Catherine Marshall -
But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.
Sarah Dessen -
What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!
Esther Hicks -
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
Herbert Spencer -
When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.
Sandra Bullock -
What a testing of character adversity is.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.
Esther Hicks -
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster -
The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
Horace Greeley -
Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are with you every time you allow it. We are in every singing bird and in every joyful child. We are part of every delicious pulsing in your environment. We are not dead, and neither will you ever be! You will just get up, one day, and get out of the movie.
Esther Hicks