Best adversity & difficult Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.”

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Author:Ari Kiev

“In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.”

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Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.”

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Author:Jacqueline Cochran

“I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.”

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Author:Dominique Moceanu

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”

“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.”

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Book:Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

“In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.”

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Book:Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890

Source: Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

“Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Behold your little ones. Pray with them. Pray for them and bless them. The world into which they are moving is a complex and difficult world. They will run into heavy seas of adversity. They will need all the strength and all the faith you can give them while they are yet near you. While they are young, pray with them that they may come to know that source of strength which shall then always be taught of the Lord' and great shall be the peace of thy children.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one who has seen many challenges over a long lifetime, I can assure you that personal faith and conviction are strengthened, not weakened, in adversity.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“The point of the adversity is to toughen your mind so that you can handle difficult circumstances in life. Your mind, toughen just like you toughen your body. So it really depends on what you need. It really depends on the individual.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“Despite how difficult and hopeless it was at times, my experiences have shaped me for the better in many ways. It ultimately taught me empathy and invaluable lessons only learned through adversity.”

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Author:Gianna Simone

“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”

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Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

Source: Sweet Thursday

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”

“Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.”

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Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“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.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.”

“~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~”

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Author:Nicole Kidman

“In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”

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Book:Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910

Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910

“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.”

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Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.”

“There is much that is difficult and challenging in the world today, my brothers and sisters, but there is also much that is good and uplifting. As we declare in our thirteenth article of faith, 'If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.' May we ever continue to do so.”

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Author:Thomas S. Monson

“These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son of God and to weaken your resolve to keep your promises to Him. These trials are often camouflaged, making them difficult to identify. They take root in our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, our sensitivities, or in those things that matter most to us. A real but manageable test for one can be a fiery trial for another.”

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Author:Neil L. Andersen

“We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“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.”

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Author:John Wooden

“It's impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you're grateful. If you're in the midst of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for.”

Source: The Power

“I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success”

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Author:Paula Cole

“In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.”

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Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them”

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Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.”

“It's easy to feel happy when things are going your way. The trick is to remain inspired in difficult situations. That's where life stops being a game of chance and becomes one of skill. That's when, if you can stay serene in the face of adversity, you get back on track in half the time it might otherwise take.”

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Author:Jonathan Cainer

“If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.”

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Book:Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards

Source: Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards

“Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations.”

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Author:John of Kronstadt

“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

“If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.”

“You can either change yourself or allow the circumstance to change you. The choice is yours.”

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Book:Think Great: Be Great!

Source: Think Great: Be Great!

“The path I walked was difficult at times and I faced many adversities along the way. But over the course of my career, I learned that I couldn’t force others to respect me or see me as their equal. Once I came to accept that, I no longer allowed other people’s opinion of me to determine my self-worth, my demeanor, or my performance. I achieved what I wanted to in the way that I wanted to do it, and then I let the results speak for themselves.”

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Book:Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly

Source: Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly

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