Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Herrick

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.

Richard Branson

Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts.

Richard Branson

It is important in life to turn adversity to success

Thucydides

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

Ruth Asawa

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

Thomas Malthus

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

Tony Evans

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.

Ronald Reagan

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.

Saadi

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Sri Chinmoy

We must endure Adversity Bravely and cheerfully.

Thomas Watson

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

Thomas Watson

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

Thomas Watson

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

Stevie Nicks

I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.

Reggie Jackson

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Reggie White

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.

Russell M. Nelson

With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

Sonia Sotomayor

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

Tim Tebow

Along the way there's going to be a lot of obstacles, a lot of adversity, a lot of people who will tell you you're not good enough. I'm here to tell you that you are. Everyone that tells you that you're not is because they didn't accomplish something.

Victor Hugo

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Sophocles

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Sophocles

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Soren Kierkegaard

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

Tacitus

Adversity deprives us of our judgment.

Ron Fournier

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

Rumi

The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

Tony Gonzalez

Adversity in life teaches you.

Stephen Hawking

A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.

Shakti Gawain

Problems are messages.

Steven Pressfield

Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.

Robert Browning

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

Ralph Nader

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.