We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Difficulty is one of the prices that we pay for our blessings.
Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man
The reward of suffering is experience
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
Despair is anger with no place to go.
I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
Case in point: Take adversity and make it an asset.
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.
I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.
I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness.
Friends are proved by adversity.
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?
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?
Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?
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.
Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.