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ADVERSITY QUOTES

ADVERSITY QUOTES

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
― Thomas Paine

“When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― Randy Pausch

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Arthur Golden

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”
― Daphne Du Maurier

“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”
― Mary Tyler Moore

“Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
― Frida Kahlo

“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”
― Shannon l. Alder

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
― Conrad Joseph

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
― Robert Jordan

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
― Helen Keller

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
― Criss Jami

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
― Tim Fargo

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami

“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
― edwin louis cole

“Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.”
― Thomas S. Monson

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
― Aristotle

“Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don’t know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.”
― Shannon Alder

“Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.”
― Thisuri Wanniarachchi

“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr

“Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right.”
― Glennon Doyle

“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.”
― Martin Luther

“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”
― Nick Hornby

“If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)”
― Jeffrey R. Holland

“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It’s a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.”
― Zack W. Van

“Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. Thats the essence of it.”
― Vince Lombardi


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SERVANT LEADERSHIP QUOTES [BLOG#22]

SERVANT LEADERSHIP QUOTES

“Rights and responsibilities always go hand in hand. Do remember the responsibilities you deny could very well be someone else’s rights”
― Joshy A J

“As a leader, my job as a CEO is Culture + Excellence Officer. My team are proffessionals, they know their job. I just maintain culture and drive excellence.”
― Janna Cachola


“Leadership is not only a title, it is a conviction to do the right thing and lead by example to those we serve.”
― Daisy Gallagher

“Great leadership is always coupled with the mindset, motivation, and momentum of great service”
― Todd Stocker


“Be nice to people… maybe it’ll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.”
― Germany Kent

“Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough


“Nous sommes des chrétiens faibles simplement parce que nous avons refusé d’être des serviteurs de Christ”
― Dr Paul Gitwaza

“It’s easy to judge, but much more difficult to serve.”
― Orrin Woodward


“If I put others first, I will never find myself being last.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Servanthood transcended all that it was thought to be and became what it was never imagined to be.”
― Farshad Asl


“The terms “Leadership” and “Management” are often used interchangeably. Management is all about bringing results. Leadership is how you achieve those results”
― Joshy A J

“If you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo


“Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water.”
― Farshad Asl

“You must be a servant if you want to be great in life”
― Sunday Adelaja


“A leader is skating up hill on a slippery slope when Servant Leadership is not part of a leaders philosophy.”
― Donavan Nelson Butler

“You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world. Somebody out there can use your help today. Are you going to choose love over fear? The purest joy in life comes from serving others. Live intentionally!”
― Farshad Asl


“It’s only through servant leadership that you can be transformed and create transformation on your way to significance.”
― Farshad Asl

“There’s not quite a feeling like the one you get when you help put a smile on someone’s face”
― Reginald L. Russell


“Your vision is sometimes seen through your actions. As leaders, it’s our responsibilty to give our teams the experience of that vision by our work each day.”
― Janna Cachola

“When someone serves with excellence, they are sometimes able to set a standard that the next generation chooses to keep.”
― Dr. Nathan Mellor


“Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility: not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less”
― Rick Warren

“He wasn’t an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.”
― Dan Jones


“In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.”
― Vern Dosch

“If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.”
― John Howard Griffin


“Teddy Roosevelt “had relished “every hour” of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the “dull thud” he would experience upon returning to private life.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

“There’s no better way to serve and nourish the magnificence in another person than to simply listen to them openheartedly and without judgment.”
― Henry Kimsey-House


“David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.”
― Geraldine Brooks

“Are you serving others or your are being served by others?”
― Saji Ijiyemi


“The king should be the servant of his people, and seek to uplift them and their lives.”
― Aleksandra Layland

“He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!”
― Israelmore Ayivor


“They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:”
― David Brooks

“He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.”
― Tom Clancy


“The pulpit is never to be the ladder by which ambition is to climb”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they’ll be fired.”
― Ron Suskind


“Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?”
― Saji Ijiyemi

“No time for anything, little time for everything”
― Sonya Withrow

“The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.”
― Watchman Nee

“Servant Leadership is an oxymoron. All true Leadership is servanthood.”
― Todd Stocker


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