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Stop thinking of me as broken or not whole. Put that bullshit down and walk away. It's not doing you any good and it's insulting to me. ~ J.R. Ward
Adversity quotes by J.R. Ward
I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life. ~ Sandra Bullock
Adversity quotes by Sandra Bullock
Suffering fuels strength. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another. ~ Kris Carr
Adversity quotes by Kris Carr
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ~ Victor Hugo
Adversity quotes by Victor Hugo
We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best. ~ Rob Kall
Adversity quotes by Rob Kall
I want us all to stop thinking only in terms of accomplishments, of task and completion, of beating the competition, of gathering income and merchandise, of winning praise, and instead, live our lives forging the deepest relationships we can with ourselves and with one another. i want us to respond to adversity by deepening our engagement in our lives. It isn't complicated. ~ Susan Scott
Adversity quotes by Susan Scott
Your response to adversity is what positions you for promotion ~ Cynthia Patterson
Adversity quotes by Cynthia Patterson
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity. ~ Norm MacDonald
Adversity quotes by Norm MacDonald
I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. ~ Dallin H. Oaks
Adversity quotes by Dallin H. Oaks
We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us. ~ A. Theodore Tuttle
Adversity quotes by A. Theodore Tuttle
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation. ~ George Washington
Adversity quotes by George Washington
Sometimes all it takes is a little watering everyday and a sunny day to follow, that's how weeds become flowers and new dawns rise - why would it be any less then for a human life? ~ Nikki Rowe
Adversity quotes by Nikki Rowe
An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Adversity quotes by Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable. ~ Vance Havner
Adversity quotes by Vance Havner
For the first time in my life, I fully realized that I was not in charge. I knew that I needed to submit to Heavenly Father's will. I couldn't have what I wanted when and how I wanted it just because I was keeping the commandments. The purpose of prayer was not to tell Heavenly Father what to do, rather to find out what He would have me do and learn. I needed to align my will with His ... Prayer is less about changing our circumstances and more about changing us. It is about seeking His will and asking for His help to do what we need to do."
June 2013 Ensign, "Improving Your Personal Prayers ~ Kevin W. Pearson
Adversity quotes by Kevin W. Pearson
Friends are proved by adversity. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Adversity quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
HOPE
A LITTLE EACH DAY
LET HOPE BE YOUR GUIDE IN LIFE.
IT SHINES THROUGH THE TOUGHEST OF TRIALS AND TAKES YOU TO A BETTER PLACE.
Hope is a quality that imbues us with grace in the face of adversity.
HOPE IN LOVE,GRACE,AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
hope is a quality that imbues us with grace in the face of adversity.
hope is synonymous with "want"or "expectation". it denotes a passive, "wait and see",approach to a desired object or outcome.
understood in this way,hope is a state of mind, a wish or thought born from a state of stress and defeat.
THAT IS WHAT HOPE MEANS TO ME. ~ Taliah Pina
Adversity quotes by Taliah Pina
For a West Point graduate to abandon his appointed task in the face of adversity or personal discomfort was all but inconceivable. ~ David McCullough
Adversity quotes by David McCullough
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. ~ Bruce Barton
Adversity quotes by Bruce Barton
An 'eye for an eye' shall leave you all blind.
It's sometimes better to walk away and know you will still be able to see the beauty that tomorrow will bring. ~ Michelle Horst
Adversity quotes by Michelle Horst
Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven
Adversity quotes by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines.
That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness. ~ Jean Webster
Adversity quotes by Jean Webster
You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring. ~ Winston Churchill
Adversity quotes by Winston Churchill
The Great stories give us the hope and the courage to survive life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
Jesus is the light of the world. His light shines through all darkness. His love heals all hatred. His grace and mercy forgives all sins. The anointing of his blood heals the sick and the lame. His guarding angels will forever protect you and his word will forever guide you. ~ Colishia S. Benjamin
Adversity quotes by Colishia S. Benjamin
To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. ~ Francis Quarles
Adversity quotes by Francis Quarles
Courage is adversity's lamp. ~ Luc De Clapiers
Adversity quotes by Luc De Clapiers
Happily Ever After, if it exists, is the result of working through adversity, proving who you are as a team. It's not some magical ability to just always hit it off. The early fun in a relationship is always the best. But it's the bullshit that tears at the two of you that proves you are meant for each other. ~ Sean Develin
Adversity quotes by Sean Develin
Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature. ~ Napoleon Hill
Adversity quotes by Napoleon Hill
Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ~ Seneca.
Adversity quotes by Seneca.
We can only recreate ourselves with renewal of our mind. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
Only the harshest personal experiences open our eyes to the immaculate possibilities and the splendor of our world. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Adversity quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity. No? ~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
Adversity quotes by Lisa Tawn Bergren
We can't always take the higher road when faced with adversity. Sometimes for the sake of restoration, peace and sharing the love of Jesus, we have to walk through the tribulation. ~ Chris Vonada
Adversity quotes by Chris Vonada
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. ~ Samuel Johnson
Adversity quotes by Samuel Johnson
Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be. ~ Nelson Mandela
Adversity quotes by Nelson Mandela
May God strengthen you. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life. ~ Aimee Mullins
Adversity quotes by Aimee Mullins
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself ~ Seneca.
Adversity quotes by Seneca.
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. ~ Samuel Daniel
Adversity quotes by Samuel Daniel
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies ~ Aristotle.
Adversity quotes by Aristotle.
Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be! ~ Esther Hicks
Adversity quotes by Esther Hicks
But as abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity, so it was with me ~ Daniel Defoe
Adversity quotes by Daniel Defoe
Faith gives us strength.
Grace gives us power.
Hope gives us anchor. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
The comparison might strike you as farfetched. What (you might be asking) can a Broadway musical possibly add to the legacy of a Founding Father--a giant of our national life, a war hero, a scholar, a statesman? What's one little play, or even one very big play, next to all that?
But there is more than one way to change the world . To secure their freedom, the polyglot American colonists had to come together, and stick together, in the face of enormous adversity. To live in a new way, they first had to think and feel in a new way. It took guns and ships to win the American Revolution, but it also required pamphlets and speeches--and at least one play. ~ Jeremy McCarter
Adversity quotes by Jeremy McCarter
Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. ~ William Shakespeare
Adversity quotes by William Shakespeare
When the Lord instills hope and faith and peace and assurance in people, they can bring great things to pass. This, then, is often what we should look for when we ask for help-not a miracle to solve our problem for us, but a miracle inside, to help us come to the solution ourselves, with the Lord's help and the Lord's power. ~ Gene R. Cook
Adversity quotes by Gene R. Cook
Pain frees you from complacency.
Tears free you from sorrow.
Weaknesses free you from pride.
Adversity frees from boredom.
Challenges free you from monotony. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Adversity quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Adversity quotes by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. ~ Criss Jami
Adversity quotes by Criss Jami
The respect + love for humanity that's why I travel.
We are all special and gifted beings, no matter our religious differences. The message should be peace,
love and prosperity. There should be no adversity but solidarity. ~ Henry Johnson Jr
Adversity quotes by Henry Johnson Jr
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life. ~ Walter Annenberg
Adversity quotes by Walter Annenberg
Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change. ~ Mary McAleese
Adversity quotes by Mary McAleese
Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person. ~ Jim Rohn
Adversity quotes by Jim Rohn
the fallen of the baboon into the river is the risen of the joy of the crocodile. Though the crocodile becomes happy, it conceals its joy until it deploys all its necessary deft and strength to take captive of the Baboon ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Adversity quotes by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart. ~ Ann Voskamp
Adversity quotes by Ann Voskamp
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. ~ George Santayana
Adversity quotes by George Santayana
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving. ~ Chip Conley
Adversity quotes by Chip Conley
If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
he acquired a more complete mastery of a spirit tamed by adversity, than his former experience had given him; and that he felt himself entitled to say firmly, though perhaps with a sigh, that the romance of his life was ended, and that its real history had now commenced. He was soon called upon to justify his pretensions to reason and philosophy. ~ Walter Scott
Adversity quotes by Walter Scott
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. ~ Vance Havner
Adversity quotes by Vance Havner
Greater dooms win greater destinies. ~ Heraclitus
Adversity quotes by Heraclitus
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unsuspected strengths. It doesn't always, of course: I've seen life beat people down until they can't get up. But I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. ~ Sonia Sotomayor
Adversity quotes by Sonia Sotomayor
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance. ~ Scott Hamilton
Adversity quotes by Scott Hamilton
You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity. ~ Hal Borland
Adversity quotes by Hal Borland
To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good. ~ Jerry Bridges
Adversity quotes by Jerry Bridges
Are you aware of who you really are in relationship to the very God who created the Universe, who scattered the stars and aligned the planets? Only to those who remember and realize that they are literally spirit children of a God who knows and loves them, can the fire of refinement be welcome. Otherwise, pain and adversity are just that, pain and adversity. Fire doesn't purify; it only burns. ~ Toni Sorenson
Adversity quotes by Toni Sorenson
Hope is holding on to the promises of God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
If a storm visits you, it's because a rainbow is looking for you. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Adversity quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity. ~ Timothy Keller
Adversity quotes by Timothy Keller
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it seemed at every turn that the winds of fate had blown our lives afoul, financially, emotionally, or idealistically. Look at all that we endured. Look at all we managed to light along our path through the long shadow of adversity. Look at the seemingly indestructible affiliation that was once us. And look at us now. ~ Jonathan Evison
Adversity quotes by Jonathan Evison
Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity. ~ John Wooden
Adversity quotes by John Wooden
A quiet woman is a firearms with a silencer. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Adversity quotes by Efrat Cybulkiewicz
You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too seriously, and you can't use things as an excuse or you'll never get through. ~ Kristine Lilly
Adversity quotes by Kristine Lilly
His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea ... ~ Brandi L. Bates
Adversity quotes by Brandi L. Bates
Don't be crushed under the oncoming tide of adversity that moves in to test your faith. Make sure that your foundation is built on the solid rock of Jesus Christ. Be ready for the storms of life and move forward in a confidence that cannot be shaken by the strong winds of hardship. ~ Calvin W. Allison
Adversity quotes by Calvin W. Allison
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Adversity quotes by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ~ Billy Graham
Adversity quotes by Billy Graham
Hope is a happy spirit. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in traveling, in the country. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Adversity quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity. ~ Steven Pressfield
Adversity quotes by Steven Pressfield
Having faced adversity and survived it, he's unlike others who haven't. ~ Peter Gray
Adversity quotes by Peter Gray
The consciousness of an embryo is the universal consciousness. What we learn after birth is awareness and egocentric consciousness that we call the mind. Everyday we learn to conform to the beauty, tragedy, and adversity of this world and that forms our judgmental mind. ~ Debasish Mridha
Adversity quotes by Debasish Mridha
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Adversity quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times, ~ Thabo Mbeki
Adversity quotes by Thabo Mbeki
Strength and character are built through adversity. ~ Stephan Labossiere
Adversity quotes by Stephan Labossiere
Adversity will always show up but it doesn't always have to come up. ~ Johnnie Dent Jr.
Adversity quotes by Johnnie Dent Jr.
It is adversity that often creates beauty. ~ Debasish Mridha
Adversity quotes by Debasish Mridha
The birth and growth of modern antisemitism has been accompanied by and interconnected with Jewish assimilation, the secularization and withering away of the old religious and spiritual values of Judaism. What actually happened was that great parts of the Jewish people were at the same time threatened by physical extinction from without and dissolution from within. In this situation, Jews concerned with the survival of their people would, in a curious and desperate misinterpretation, hit on the consoling idea that antisemitism, after all, might be an excellent means for keeping the people together so that the assumption of external antisemitism would even imply an external guarantee of Jewish existence. This superstition, a secularized travesty of the idea of eternity inherent in a faith in chosenness and a Messianic hope, has been strengthened through the fact that for many centuries the Jews experienced the Christian brand of hostility which was indeed a powerful agent of preservation, spiritually as well as politically. The Jews mistook modern anti-Christian antisemitism for the old religious Jew-hatred - and this all the more innocently because their assimilation had by-passed Christianity in its religious and cultural aspect. Confronted with an obvious symptom of the decline of Christianity, they could therefore imagine in all ignorance that this was some revival of the so-called "Dark Ages." Ignorance or misunderstanding of their own past were partly responsible for the ~ Hannah Arendt
Adversity quotes by Hannah Arendt
Wild Things in Captivity

Wild things in captivity
while they keep their own wild purity
won't breed, they mope, they die.

All men are in captivity,
active with captive activity,
and the best won't breed, though they don't know why.

The great cage of our domesticity
kills sex in a man, the simplicity
of desire is distorted and twisted awry.

And so, with bitter perversity,
gritting against the great adversity,
they young ones copulate, hate it, and want to cry.

Sex is a state of grace.
In a cage it can't take place.
Break the cage then, start in and try. ~ D.H. Lawrence
Adversity quotes by D.H. Lawrence
The storm is the test, the sunshine is the reward. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Adversity quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
individuals who experience positive emotions in a 3-to-1 ratio with negative ones "become much more resilient to adversity and effortlessly achieve what they once could only imagine. ~ Kani Ilangovan
Adversity quotes by Kani Ilangovan
We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe. ~ John Green
Adversity quotes by John Green
The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life. To me, this is where the gospel can be the greatest of help to us. The power of the Holy Ghost is the greatest source of strength and comfort we can have in our lives. The Holy Ghost will not only help us in times of need, but will help us to gain a firm testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ, thereby preparing us for life. ~ LaVell Edwards
Adversity quotes by LaVell Edwards
I became a mother before becoming sick, but i never expected sickness to take away my independent mothering, so i plant trees to sooth my soul from the aching pains of losing the maternal ability to mother another child. My first born will be my only treasure, the one who knew who i was before the mess entered our lives and also the one who adapted with me to a reality we weren't certain of oh and lots of plants and plants and plants. ~ Nikki Rowe
Adversity quotes by Nikki Rowe
And when Tolstoy found God his lines went limp, and Turgenev on his deathbed grieved for him because although Tolstoy had given up his land and his coppers for God, he had also given up something else. And although Dostoevski ended up on believing in Christ, he took the long road to get there, a most interesting and perhaps unwholesome road over roulette tables, raping a small child, standing before a wall waiting for the rifles to fire, he found that "adversity is the main-spring of self-realism," he found his Christ, but what a most interesting Christ, a self-made Christ, and I bow to him. ~ Charles Bukowski
Adversity quotes by Charles Bukowski
Adversity and challenges are life's way of creating strength. Adversity creates challenge, and challenge creates change, and change is absolutely necessary for growth. If there is no change and challenge, there can be no growth and development. ~ Willie Jolley
Adversity quotes by Willie Jolley
It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Adversity quotes by Gordon B. Hinckley
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