Famous Quotes & Sayings

The thing that I am most proud about is the fact that this team has overcome such adversity and negativity. There we were, 10-6 and hearing all the negative talk and dealing with things we had dealt with all year, but these kids stayed together and now look at us, sectional champions.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf so if you fall you have something to reach for.

Rarely do you get dominated at home. I thought we looked frustrated and didn't respond well to adversity.

Don Davis

Randle El is that kind of guy. He poses a lot of those same kind of problems. (But) this team reacts well to adversity ... This special teams unit will get better.

Our seniors did a great job of stepping up for us. They worked through a lot of adversity and always stayed positive and led by example.

Mike Shanahan

What I meant by that is, any time you have adversity, now you've got a chance to see all of these guys play every game the rest of the way like it's a playoff game. What you want guys to do when there's adversity is to play harder and play better, and that's when you see what kind of guys you have in your locker room.

Nancy Mitford

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

Julian Assange

While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.

Kristi Yamaguchi

I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.

Harry S Truman

I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.

H. L. Mencken

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Nikki Sixx

I'm able to make decisions even in the face of adversity.

Marvin J. Ashton

Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.

Marvin J. Ashton

Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.

Marvin J. Ashton

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

Marvin J. Ashton

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

Neal A. Maxwell

Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

Neal A. Maxwell

The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

Neal A. Maxwell

If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope.

Neal A. Maxwell

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

Neal A. Maxwell

These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

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.

Frank Herbert

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

Harold B. Lee

Don't try to live too many days at a time.

James E. Faust

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

James E. Faust

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

James E. Faust

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

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.