Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal A. Maxwell

The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.

Neal A. Maxwell

During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A few individuals may appear to have no trials at all, which, if it were so, would be a trial in itself. Indeed, if, as do trees, our souls had rings to measure the years of greatest personal growth, the wide rings would likely reflect the years of greatest moisture-but from tears, not rainfall.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

Publilius Syrus

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

Publilius Syrus

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

Oprah Winfrey

Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.

Oprah Winfrey

People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

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.

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.

Teddy Pendergrass

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

Shelby Foote

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

Lawrence Durrell

They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

Marcus Aurelius

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

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

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?

Tatyana Tolstaya

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

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.

Phyllis Bottome

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Pythagoras

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Les Brown

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

Lennox Lewis

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. .

Lee Iacocca

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Thomas Aquinas

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

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.

Julius Charles Hare

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.