Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khalil Gibran

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

Napoleon Hill

Adversity will do something too you or for you.......

Napoleon Hill

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

Napoleon Hill

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

Napoleon Hill

Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

Napoleon Hill

Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.

Napoleon Hill

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Adversity is the midwife of genius

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.

Og Mandino

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

Og Mandino

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

Norman Vincent Peale

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.

Epicurus

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Epictetus

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Epictetus

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

Epictetus

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

Emily Dickinson

He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

Emily Dickinson

Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.