Adversity Struggles Quotes & Sayings

The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things. — Jane Asher

Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life's circumstances? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes it feels as if God set you on Earth with a bottle full of nasty-tasting pills called days and these instructions: Swallow one at a time. When entire prescription is finished, you may return home. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Our sufferings produce strength of spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He kisses me hard, tells me between frenzied kisses, 'You feel so good, beautiful, beautiful, sweet girl. Feel how much I want you.' He circles his hips against mine. 'I want you like this all the fucking time. — S.R. Grey

Hope is patient endurance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People relying on others or someone to complete them are delaying the opportunity to discover the person they are meant to be. — Dodinsky

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way. — Betty Smith

Without struggles, success would be meaningless. — Peprah Boasiako

Even political systems follow a form of rational tinkering, when people are rational hence take the better option: the Romans got their political system by tinkering, not by "reason." Polybius in his Histories compares the Greek legislator Lycurgus, who constructed his political system while "untaught by adversity," to the more experiential Romans, who, a few centuries later, "have not reached it by any process of reasoning [emphasis mine], but by the discipline of many struggles and troubles, and always choosing the best by the light of the experience gained in disaster. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I still have joy in the midst of struggles. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope makes life worth living. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life. — Boyd K. Packer

You will face many troubles. But the Lord will deliver you each time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of those who threaten it. — U.S. Department Of The Navy

Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength, within our trials lives our triumphs. Friction creates a platform for change, generates heat and or fervor and creates a motivational charge that gives us an opportunity to be better. A gem cannot be polished without friction and so neither a person without hardships. Friction within and friction without sharpens our senses and revives our internal resolutions. Friction is uncomfortable, hardships are distressing but both are necessary. We cannot light a match without friction nor can we hone steal. Uncomfortable as it may be, our adversity ultimately lights a fire and sharpens our very will to flourish. Today, let us not be discouraged, let us not be bitter in our suffering rather let us be encouraged as we look to our trials as a medium that will eventually make us better. — Jason Versey

We can only recreate ourselves with renewal of our mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

With patient endurance, the best of life enfolds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It doesn't matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better past today is what matters. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour). — Hilary Putnam

We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about. — John Atkinson

The Lord is my 'Strong Fortress'.
The Lord is my 'Solid Rock'. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your strength is greater than your struggles. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is strength in every struggle. Struggles create opportunities for you to become stronger, wiser and better. The moment you shift your thinking from "I cannot" to "I must," you will begin to see 'Beyond the Pain' and draw strength from within. Learn to see each obstacle as a stepping stone and watch your life change significantly. — Kemi Sogunle

Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times. — Brian Tracy

We need to develop new strategies overcome every challenge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity refined as like gold. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who rise to greatness, have endured enormous struggles in their lifetime. It is through their challenges that they forge their will to survive and to keep rising to the top no matter what adversity is thrown against them. — Timothy Pina

Every challenge you conquer, will make you courageous. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. — Plato

A comprehended god is no god. — John Chrysostom

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come. — Dallin H. Oaks

Never judge the life of another man.
You never know his struggles. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing. — Richard Paul Evans

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles. — James Sharp

There is hope in any circumstance. Be strong! — Lailah Gifty Akita

The two centrepieces of social intelligence are the possession of extensive social knowledge about other individuals, in terms of knowing who allies and friends are, and the ability to infer the mental states of those individuals. — Steven Mithen

In times of turbulence, we must keep calm and be patient. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In some cases is keeping your mouth shut the best answer. — Dalai Lama