Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.

Edgar Guest

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

Augusten Burroughs

I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.

Benjamin Disraeli

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

C. S. Lewis

In our adversity, God shouts to us.

Conor McGregor

Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.

Elizabeth I

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

We played with a lot of heart. We have faced a lot of adversity and injuries, but heart and pride have been our trademarks.

Bobby Crosby

We pretty much needed to sweep, best-case scenario. But we're still in it. We still have a shot. We've got to take the next three and hope for the best. ... We've dealt with so much adversity this year, I don't think you can count us out.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

When there's adversity, you have to respond to it. You have a choice, you can sit around and mope and say what if, or you can rise to the occasion. We don't know whose stepping up yet, but we are excited to find out.

When there is no adversity, he can be a very positive person in the unit. (When there's adversity or trouble), we see a different side. There is a duality.

We still have to acknowledge that we're down.

Dwayne Roloson

We battled trough the adversity and were able to bounce back and get a couple goals to get us in the lead, and get us a little confidence.

We gave them the game, they didn't earn it at all. I don't know what to say. Our girls said they gave it 110 percent and that is all we can ask for. It's disappointing to lose, but you have to look at our accomplishments and we overcame a lot of adversity.

We worked so hard for it and we have been through a lot of adversity this year with our local media and everything. It just feels great to get to this point, but we're not satisfied yet. That's one thing we're going to talk about tonight, we have got another one tomorrow.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Kimora Lee Simmons

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

Scott Johnson

Tough times breed tough men and we are taking a tough team to Dublin to play tough rugby. We are going to look squarely in the face of adversity and show a different side to our characters this weekend.

This sport is mental. We've been through a lot of adversity in the last seven years. But as a group we've been able to put things behind us and believe in ourselves and in our driver.

Marlee Matlin

I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'

Mark Twain

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

We have limited resources, unlimited vulnerability, and a flexible adversary. There are many cities that can make a good justification, but our limited resources have to be spent wisely.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

Abraham Lincoln

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Abraham Lincoln

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Allen Klein

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Ann Landers

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Andy Andrews

Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

Andy Andrews

Adversity is preparation for greatness.

Andy Andrews

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.