Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

Chip Conley

When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.

Chiang Kai-shek

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

William Shakespeare

A man I am cross'd with adversity.

William Shakespeare

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

We've battled adversity all year and have been in those kind of situations. Our kids know they're never out of a game. But it looked pretty bleak there for a bit.

Ron Wilson

We responded to adversity and that's important because we're going to face this kind of stuff when we're on the road.

Ricky Williams

When we face adversity, we don't crumble. That's what we should be excited about. Wins come when you deal with adversity well.

Mike Sherman

What happens when adversity strikes? And it will, and we'll have to work through those issues. It won't always be the good times in the preseason when everyone's patting you on the back.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

C. Northcote Parkinson

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

Carl Jung

People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.

We've undergone a lot. But I think there was more adversity going on outside our group than there was inside. We just kept on moving forward with our jobs.

Charles J. Givens

Make choices-not excuses.

Beth Moore

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

Bill Vaughan

In adversity man is saved by hope.

Bob Hope

I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.

Brent Spiner

We're going to discover as time goes on that there is some adversity ... They are not in love with each other. These three guys were essentially shanghaied and made to do this job, whether they want to or not. And they're geniuses, so they have egos. I play a doctor, and I never met a doctor without an ego.

We faced adversity and we overcame it and that's what's important to look at.

We're fine. When you face adversity, you don't whine or complain. You've got to move on.

Joe Sakic

We're facing adversity now, but it's better it be now than later. As the game went on, we did a better job keeping it together, but we're still not together.

William Shakespeare

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Jamie Martin

Through adversity, you learn a lot more and you become a stronger team and you jell together a lot more. So I'm kind of glad we had a little bit of that adversity to try and get over.

Charles William Eliot

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.

Aimee Mullins

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

Scott Johnson

We are going to look squarely in the face of adversity and show a different side to our characters this weekend. We've shown that we can turn on the pretty stuff, now we are going to show our true heart, make Welsh fans proud of us and come out fighting.

Chris Norman

We did face a lot of adversity at Brevard and our guys did a good job bouncing back. We were playing fullback by committee there so it was a true team win.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Carol Burnett

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Aimee Mullins

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

Aimee Mullins

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

Charles Kettering

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

Billie Holiday

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.