Quotes about Adversity

You do not want cricketers who are cowed by adversity, waiting for someone to tell them what to do. You're going to face adversity. It's not if - it's when. Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity. Just be free, and at least you will go through adversity with a stronger mind, and therefore, you'll be less affected, and pain will affect you less. Resilience is not simply a gift; it's a conquest over adversity, sculpted by both genes and experiences. Resilience is an inference based on evidence that some individuals have a better outcome than others who have experienced a comparable level of adversity. Democrats can't survive in any kind of adversity. Look at how they're crying and whining like a bunch of stuck pigs over the mean Russians. Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend. Adversity and challenges can ignite some of the greatest opportunities in your life. Sometimes we need a failure to see the new opportunities that were right in front of us all along. Sometimes severe adversity is simply the universe's way of telling you that you are on the wrong path and need to make some changes. Crisis is good for you! In moments of crises or severe adversity our mind and body will shift gear and often access resources that we simply didn't know existed prior to the event. Adversity reminds men of religion. In adversity, everything that surrounds you is a kind of medicine that helps you refine your conduct, yet you are unaware of it. In pleasant situations, you are faced with weapons that will tear you apart, yet you do not realize it. I have learned... adversity can be one of the greatest gifts of all. Adversity is an experience, not a final act. Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will never be without strife and grief. Thus, we should not strive for a peace that is without temptation, or for a life that never feels adversity. Peace is not found by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them. We will have discovered peace when we have been tried and come through the trial of temptation. Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. 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. Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity. It is the manner of (Cadel) Evan's triumph that has particularly endeared him to his countrymen and women... Australians place a premium on persistence in adversity... His win in the year's tour was much more than an exhibition of pure sporting talent; it was a display of grit that will long be treasured by all who saw it. I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am. Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable. In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy. How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ? Prosperity has no power over adversity. Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits. With every adversity and trial comes the opportunity to grow stronger and learn from your circumstance. Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us. On accepting adversity in our lives: Always it is initiated by an act of will on our part; we set ourselves to believe in the overruling goodness, providence, and sovereignty of God and refuse to turn aside no matter what may come, no matter how we may feel. I mistakenly thought I could not trust God unless I felt like trusting Him. Now I am learning that trusting God is first of all a matter of the will. I choose to trust in God, and my feelings eventually follow. Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.