Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plutarch

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Micky Arison

And the vision that I had when I decided to come here is all coming true. Through adversity, through everything we've been through, we've been able to persevere ... It's an unbelievable feeling.

Nathaniel Branden

It is true that people are sometimes hit by adversities beyond their control. But those so affected are better helped when they are awakened to the resources they do possess than when they are told they don't have any.

Mother Teresa

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

Jim Lee

Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal.

John Bytheway

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

Joel Osteen

If you’re controlled by your circumstances, life is going to be a roller coaster with ups and downs. God wants you to be stable, consistent, not moved by any of these things. When you face an adversity, when you hit a tough time, one of the best things you can do is simply stay calm. Keep your peace.

Joan Baez

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Lil' Kim

Throughout my life, I have always lived with adversity and will continue to have faith and do good for my family, friends and fans.

Josephine Hart

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

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.

Julie Andrews

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

Joseph Hall

Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.

Joseph Hall

Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.

Josh Billings

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Julius Charles Hare

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

Otto von Bismarck

Politics ruins the character.

John Piper

The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

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.

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.

Pat Summitt

I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.

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'.

Marvin J. Ashton

Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.

Marvin J. Ashton

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.