Tag: strength

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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