Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Healthier employees mean happier employees. There's less absenteeism, improved productivity and lowered health care premium costs.

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.

George Herbert

Every path hath a puddle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Jerry Bridges

I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don’t feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

Jerry Bridges

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

Gloria Allred

Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.

Francis Quarles

To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

Francis Quarles

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

Francis Quarles

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

Horace

A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]

Horace Mann

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

I can overcome adversity with God in my life.

I could tell we were still tired from (Thursday's) game. Now it's time to see how we deal with this adversity.

I don't think there's much difference between the guys who are hurt and the guys who are playing. I don't see a lot of adversity there because the guys they have playing for them deserve a lot of credit.

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

I asked them to dig down and show some character and overcome adversity. It has been a rough last week for us, and hopefully we'll stay on the right track.

I am very, very pleased with our football team that they could shake off what happened to us the last 14 days and come out here and execute even when adversity hit us a little bit. I hope that says something about our team that we can grow." ()

He's not going to let adversity slow him down. I see him pitching this year, definitely.

Howard Schultz

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

Ibrahim Babangida

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Harvey Milk

Never take an elevator in city hall.

Harvey Milk

Hope will never be silent.

James E. Faust

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. ... In this way the soul can become like soft clay in the hands of the Master.

James Broughton

Adversity is a stimulus.