Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Chagall

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

Thomas a Kempis

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Thomas a Kempis

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Thomas a Kempis

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

Thomas a Kempis

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

Thomas a Kempis

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

Shia LaBeouf

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Tatyana Tolstaya

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

Thucydides

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

Thomas Watson

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

Thomas Watson

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

Thomas Watson

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

Stevie Nicks

I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.

Reggie Jackson

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Reggie White

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.

Tacitus

Adversity deprives us of our judgment.

Ron Fournier

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

Rumi

The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

Tony Gonzalez

Adversity in life teaches you.

Thomas Carlyle

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

Tony Evans

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.

Stephen Hawking

A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.

Shakti Gawain

Problems are messages.

Steven Pressfield

Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.

Robert Browning

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

Tariq Ramadan

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

Tariq Ramadan

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

T. S. Eliot

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Les Brown

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

Lennox Lewis

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. .

Lee Iacocca

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.