Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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." ()

Hosea Ballou

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

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.

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.

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

Gao Xingjian

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

Mike Lowell

I've gone through adversity most guys don't have to face.

John Adams

People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

Harvey Mackay

I have never yet met a successful person who hasn't had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. If life there is a lot of lumps and bumps... a lot of throttling up and a lot of throttling down.

Louise Hay

Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped.

The guys were exhausted but you could tell they were happy. We really had to fight some adversity, but we were able to pull it out. That's not easy to do when you're tired.

Ryan Smyth

The grit that we have, the depth that we have, the intensity that we have throughout the hockey game - that's crucial. It's believing and knowing that we can fight through a little adversity and find ways to win.