Quotes about adversity
adversity wind storm
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
adversity opportunity significant
Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
adversity sight trials
With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure. Russell M. Nelson
adversity long challenges
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. Ronald Reagan
adversity men prosperity
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. Saadi
adversity next firsts
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one. Ruth Gordon
adversity dark night
If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey. Rufus Jones
adversity wind broken
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. Robert Jordan
adversity giving trying
Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again. Robert Falcon Scott
adversity successful winning
Building discipline, earning respect and overcoming adversity are all parts of a winning game plan. If you don't have a game plan, where are you going? When I'm talking about a game plan, I'm talking about how you go about being the best player you can be and how you go about being successful in life. Walt Frazier
adversity adversity-in-life teach
Adversity in life teaches you. Tony Gonzalez
adversity responsibility looks
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it. Sophocles
adversity sorrow causes
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
adversity class realizing
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 Malthus
adversity men prosperity
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity. Thomas Carlyle
adversity men our-world
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. Tony Evans
adversity faces inspirational-office
A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat. Stephen Hawking
adversity messages problem
Problems are messages. Shakti Gawain
adversity promise wonderful
Life didn't promise to be wonderful. Teddy Pendergrass
adversity angel men
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. James Madison
adversity voice able
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown. Soren Kierkegaard
adversity simple serious-illness
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. Sonia Sotomayor
adversity people not-good-enough
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. Tim Tebow
adversity happy-life unhappy
I've had an unhappy life, thank God. Russell Baker
adversity bird singing
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we? Rose Kennedy
adversity trying prosperity
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
adversity survival resilience
Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist. Richard Davidson
adversity mind prosperity
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. Julius Charles Hare
adversity character ruins
Politics ruins the character. Otto von Bismarck
adversity men apprenticeship
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. Samuel Smiles
adversity grace soul
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul. Saint Augustine
adversity men understanding
God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless
adversity men open-minded
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity. Will Rogers