Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Barrow

No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind.

Challenges are part of life so you might as well learn how to conquer them.

By any means necessary. We overcame every obstacle and adversity the devil put in front of us.

But to be here and able to play for a championship and have a say when our last game is going to be means a adversity that we've faced. Coming here as freshmen, going through the sanctions and the injuries, everything. ... And for us to still be standing here and able to play for a championship at the end of it says a lot about who we are as people.

Patty Sheehan

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it

Patrick Henry

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

Oscar Wilde

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

Publilius Syrus

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

Publilius Syrus

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

Nelson Mandela

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man

Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

John Ashcroft

Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.

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.

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.

Oprah Winfrey

People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

Lucille Clifton

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

Lucretius

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

Louis Kronenberger

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

Louis L'Amour

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

Mark Twain

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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'.