Adversity Quote by Alcoholics Anonymous Download Open image ““There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.”” — Alcoholics Anonymous ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity
“In the midst of EVERY difficulty, lies an opportunity that is longing for you to grasp it.” — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
“All difficulties in this life, every moment of difficulty, come from the distance between what is and what we want to be.” — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“It won't always be easy, I'd never expect it to be, but no matter what obstacles we come across, in the end, it will… — Nicole Edwards Copy Share Image
“In the pursuit of wholeness, there will surely be challenges but you need to keep going.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“...once you settle on an island, you never leave, an island holds on to what it has with all its might and main.” — Roy Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.” — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
“The very best things in life are born of difficulty. Whatever comes too easily is easily abandoned.” — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.” — Wu Cheng'en Copy Share Image
“and I actually talked about God, the one who had abandoned me when I was very little, very frightened, and very hurt.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“New Year’s resolutions I recycled for a dozen years while my drinking and my life kept getting worse. Alcohol had enslaved me. I was… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The horrors grew. Inner horrors. On the surface it looked as though I was more or less keeping it together, but day by day… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How I ran my home, I don’t know. I went on, realizing what I was becoming, hating myself for it, bitter, blaming life, blaming… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Acceptance is the answer to all my problemskey to all my problems today.When I am distrubed, it is because I find some person, place,… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s like a man standing on a bridge in the middle of a river with his pants on fire wondering why his pants are… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But in the light of the new understanding that I have found in A.A., I have been able to interpret that defeat and that failure and that shame as seeds of victory. Because it was only through feeling defeat and feeling failure, the inability to cope with my life and with alcohol, that I was able to surrender and accept… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share
“I actually wanted a drink, besides feeling that I had to have a drink.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I got home in the evening, I drank at least half the fifth in front of the television set and watched reruns until… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wondered how this misery would end. I was full of fear. I was afraid to tell others what I felt lest they would… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I tried everything. I moved a thousand miles away from home to Chicago and a new environment. I studied art; I desperately endeavored to… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dishonest thinking, prejudice, ego, antagonism toward anyone and everyone who dares to cross him, vanity, and a critical attitude are character defects that gradually… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was actually not the most serious threat that the United States faced. The president can and should speak of foreseeing an era in which these threats don't exist, but you must not believe his own rhetoric. To… — George Friedman Copy Share
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“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… — Jason Versey Copy Share
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She will never let an illness, a diagnosis, or a prediction, define her. She doesn't want sympathy, because that type of attention is not her goal. She'd rather you see the woman who smiles in the face… — Alfa H Copy Share
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image