Famous Quotes & Sayings

For all the adversity he faced this year, he never once made it about him, it was always about the team. Considering all the circumstances he was under, I can only imagine that was extremely hard.

Horace Greeley

The Republic need to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering; so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes

There's a lot of football loft to be played. We've struggled with adversity -- a coaching change at the beginning of the season and another (last week). Now, we're trying to come together as a team. We feel like we have the foundation to win another division championship.

You're paid to do a job. You just have to block it out and focus on what you're doing. There's going to be adversity in anything. I had no problems focusing.

Andrew Shue

You're going to have to take a chance: you're going to have to reach out to touch people to make things happen. And it's not going to be easy, because there's going to be all kinds of adversity against you and people who are going to say things that make you feel like you aren't capable.

James Allen

Your difficulty is not contained, primarily, in the situation which gave rise to it, but in the mental state with which you regard that situation and which you bring to bear upon it.

This is exactly what we need to do, to have adversity and overcome it. This is big and it can set a tone. We didn't play our best game and maybe we shouldn't have been in that position to begin with, but to see them hang in there and come back is as important as anything that could have happened.

Russell M. Nelson

With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

Ronald Reagan

I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one who has seen many challenges over a long lifetime, I can assure you that personal faith and conviction are strengthened, not weakened, in adversity.

Saadi

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Philip Emeagwali

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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.

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.

Sophocles

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Sophocles

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Soren Kierkegaard

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

Marcus Aurelius

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

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.

Marcus Aurelius

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Marcus Aurelius

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Marcus Aurelius

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

Marc Chagall

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

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

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

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?

Thomas a Kempis

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

Thomas a Kempis

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

Shia LaBeouf

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Tatyana Tolstaya

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

Thucydides

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.