Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hosea Ballou

Prosperity often presages adversity.

Horace

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

Remember to be calm in adversity.

Horace

In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. (Psalms 109:4)

Frederick William Robertson

As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

Geoffrey Chaucer

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

Gary Player

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

George W. Bush

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

Ezra Taft Benson

You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind.

Euripides

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

Francis Ford Coppola

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Francis Bacon

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Francis Bacon

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Francis Bacon

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

I wanted a positive message, ... I wanted something about making good decisions, overcoming adversity and being good team players.

I'm just proud of our kids to hang in there and keep their composure through all that adversity. We lost it for a little bit there in the fourth, but kept believing and kept working. That says a lot about our kids. This is two weeks in a row where it came down to the last second and we got it done.

Ernest Holmes

Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done - complete and perfect.

Anton had a little sophomore jinx after having such a good rookie year. This year we'll see a different Anton. A little adversity last year might help him, but he will have some serious competition.

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

Jay Moore

As a defense we handled the adversity very well. That was one of our main things coming out of last year. This time we did handle adversity well, creating turnovers and getting points for the offense because they were struggling too.

The boy never ceases to amaze me with the accomplishments. He just works hard through a lot of adversity. He's focused and pretty responsible for his age. We started this journey in junior league. I put him in there because I wanted to get him fairly decent in high school. I just never dreamed it'd be this.

Right now we deal with adversity in a very poor way. We deal with adversity by putting our head down and turning on each other.

Sara has battled through adversity and has provided our program with the passion that is needed to play at this level. She has left her mark on the program in the record books and will always be mentioned when people talk about the Virginia softball program.

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.