Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lil' Kim

Throughout my life, I have always lived with adversity and will continue to have faith and do good for my family, friends and fans.

Livy

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

Livy

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

Livy

Adversity reminds men of religion.

Livy

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Livy

Adversity makes men remember God.

Lou Holtz

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Lou Holtz

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

Malcolm Forbes

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

Malcolm Gladwell

Flom had the same experience...He didn't triumph over adversity. Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.

Mahatma Gandhi

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Mahatma Gandhi

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.

Jim Lee

Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal.

John Bytheway

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

Joel Osteen

If you’re controlled by your circumstances, life is going to be a roller coaster with ups and downs. God wants you to be stable, consistent, not moved by any of these things. When you face an adversity, when you hit a tough time, one of the best things you can do is simply stay calm. Keep your peace.

Joan Baez

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Mao Zedong

Morality begins at the point of a gun.

Mao Zedong

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

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.

Robert Herrick

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

Ulysses S. Grant

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

Robert Ringer

Not every bad break is negative in the long term; not every problem is a bona fide injustice; and not every injustice is major when juxtaposed against the millions of injustices that occur daily throughout the world.

Richard Paul Evans

Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

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.

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.