Top 1200 Overcoming Adversity Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

I am happy that I have so many friends all over the world who contributed to my research work, and I believe that also in the future, basic research offers the best opportunity of reaching across borders and overcoming ideological barriers.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

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

He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts.

Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

The best antidote to stress is resilience... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.

Football is just like life. You have to manage adversity all the time. You have to do the right things and be ready for the moment.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies.

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

But watching characters that are awkward, overcoming their own obstacles and finding some of the hardest criminals in the world is interesting. We like watching losers win because we're all basically losers.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

All the adversity and discouragement is trying to cloud your mind. But I learned to deal with it. In the end, I'm happy and thankful and blessed.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Mentally strong people overcome setbacks with confidence because adversity only makes them better.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

'Kimmy' first and foremost is a show about a woman overcoming the odds. I think that they write the show in a way that you're not beaten over the head with it, but showing and not telling. I think that's really powerful.

I've been lucky that I haven't encountered much adversity growing up in London and having friends from all different backgrounds.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.

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

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Every phase of my life always hasn't been perfect for me. I've had to go through some adversity.

It's always amazing when a fan will say you've helped them through some kind of adversity.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.