Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cena

A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.

Cesare Pavese

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

(The injuries) were costly. But in dealing with the injuries it brings you closer together and you become tighter. Adversity builds character, and every team gets tested in some way. I think we did a pretty good job dealing with them.

Martin Seligman

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

Marc Chagall

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

Thomas a Kempis

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Thomas a Kempis

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Thomas a Kempis

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?

Thomas a Kempis

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

Thomas a Kempis

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

Shia LaBeouf

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Tatyana Tolstaya

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

Paulo Coelho

You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.

The climb represents a mission of hope and a true lesson in overcoming adversity.

Lucy Larcom

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

John F. Kennedy

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

Jonathan Kozol

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

Julie Andrews

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

Julie Andrews

When adversity hits, go out and learn something.

Pliny the Elder

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Plutarch

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Micky Arison

And the vision that I had when I decided to come here is all coming true. Through adversity, through everything we've been through, we've been able to persevere ... It's an unbelievable feeling.

Nathaniel Branden

It is true that people are sometimes hit by adversities beyond their control. But those so affected are better helped when they are awakened to the resources they do possess than when they are told they don't have any.

Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.

Ovid

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

Ovid

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Meher Baba

God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vitalbreath of his life, man compromises by making over and over againa mechanical religion of it a handy staff to lean on in times of adversity, a soothing balm for his conscience or a tradition to be followed.

Pope Benedict XVI

Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.

James Lane Allen

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

Josephine Hart

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Josh Billings

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.