Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

Confucius

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

Confucius

Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

Andrea Arnold

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

In any adversity gold can find friends.

Ambrose Bierce

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

Ann Voskamp

When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.

Albert Bandura

By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.

Albert Ellis

So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.

Cicely Tyson

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.

Andy Stanley

Your response to opportunities, adversities and calling, determine the type of leader you become.

Anne Graham Lotz

Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the sunshine of blessing.

William Shakespeare

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

William Shakespeare

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

William Shakespeare

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We haven't faced a lot of adversity in our own end, but I'm sure they'll be fired up when they hear that comment. They'll be ready to go.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Ryan Hollins

To be counted out, and for our team to pretty much come together as we have against all the adversity, doubters, injuries ... we just worked hard every day. I couldn't be happier for my guys. We're a team. We're a family. We're sticking together.

To be behind to Nederland 10-0 and comeback was a great accomplishment. We fought back and toppled adversity and thought we did a decent job tonight.

Rita Dove

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Richard Marx

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

Thomas Browne

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Thomas S. Monson

If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

Thomas S. Monson

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

Robert H. Schuller

Every burden is a blessing.

Tariq Ramadan

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

Tariq Ramadan

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

T. S. Eliot

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Ray Kroc

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.

Rashida Jones

When a thing you love faces adversity, you start to feel more protective of it. Also, you take an inventory all the time. You ask yourself, "Is this worth all my fighting?"

Thomas Jefferson

A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering.