Quotes by Adversity There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured. Richard C. Edgley despairadversityfire Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist. Richard Davidson resilienceadversitysurvival If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!'' Richard DeVos perseveranceadversitydetermination Pain and adversity are powerful vehicles to promote personal growth. Nothing helps you learn, grow, and evolve more quickly. Nothing offers you as big an opportunity to reclaim more of your authentic power as a person. Richard Bach adversitypainpowerful Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We are immersed in a sea of persistent, worldly pressures that could destroy our happiness. Yet these very forces, if squarely faced, provide opportunity for tremendous personal growth and development. The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor. Richard G. Scott adversityadventurecharacter No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws of God will always have those challenges. The other reason for adversity is to accomplish the Lord's own purposes in our life that we may receive the refinement that comes from testing. It is vitally important for each of us to identify from which of these two sources come our trials and challenges, for the corrective action is very different. Richard G. Scott adversitysadnessdisappointment Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again. Richard G. Scott adversitytryinggiving Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts. Richard Branson effortadversitysurvival When you face adversity . . . don't' ask: Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this, now? What have I done to cause this? Rather ask: What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial? Richard G. Scott adversitylearningblessing Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again. Please learn that as you wrestle with a challenge and feel sadness because of it, you can simultaneously have peace and rejoicing. Richard G. Scott adversitysadnesspeace It is important in life to turn adversity to success Richard Branson self-improvementadversityimportant I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity. Richard Marx thriveadversitythinking One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride. Richard Nelson Bolles horseadversitydecision Harnessing adversity is a discipline tailored to a world of unpredictable outcomes--a world where one can disturb, but not wholly direct, a living system. Because the unexpected--adversity--is guaranteed, this discipline is about routinely making lemons into lemon meringue pie. Richard Pascale pieadversitydiscipline Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were. Richard Paul Evans adversitysuccessfulinspiring Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity. Richard Paul Evans greatest-giftsadversity It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen. Richard Paul Evans adversitystarsbelieve Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson adversityraininspirational The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace. Richard M. Nixon adversitycharacterwar Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. Ralph Waldo Emerson adversitystrongwar«4647484950515253545556»
