Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Les Brown

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

Lennox Lewis

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. .

Lee Iacocca

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Thomas Aquinas

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

Shelby Foote

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

Lawrence Durrell

They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

Marcus Aurelius

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Marcus Aurelius

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

Marcus Aurelius

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Marcus Aurelius

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Marcus Aurelius

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

Phyllis Bottome

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Pythagoras

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

James Cook

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs very little; only a little thought is necessary. There is no greater religion than love. God is love; and the best form of love is to be conscientious regarding the feelings of those with whom we come in contact in everyday life.

Heather Mills

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

Hector Hugh Munro

The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

Mike Lowell

I've gone through adversity most guys don't have to face.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn to love it.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger. Then you will be better able to help others -those who are working, in their turn, to find a safe harbor from the storms that rage about them.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

Joseph Addison

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

Jose Maria Aznar

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu

Kevin Conroy

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.

M. Scott Peck

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.