Top 1200 Overcoming Adversity Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.

I feel like every project that I've been doing, I've learned something about myself. It's like I've cracked something, or my vision of myself has gotten wider. I'm just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.

Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity.

He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Adversity is an opportunity for growth. And an opportunity to really know who your friends are.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity.

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.

In adversity you have to become stronger and make sure you don't make those mistakes again so you learn from it.

Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.

I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong.

The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

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

There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.

You can do nothing, or you can take on the challenge of taking on the adversity. You have got to have faith. You have to have faith in whatever you believe in.

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

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

In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

I'm just going to keep going. That's been my motto since I was younger, through all adversity and all obstacles.

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

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.

A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]

Know how to win and how to lose and be able to handle adversity.

With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.

The Chinese nation is a great nation; it has been through hardships and adversity but remains indomitable.

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

You can't judge somebody when they're doing well: You've got to judge them when they're going through adversity.

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.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.

Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

I've seen teams and I've been on teams where, when adversity hits you, you kind of crumble.

Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.

Sure, I've dealt with my own share of adversity as an outsider living in this country but I recognize my challenges were not made harder, or impossible, because of the color of my skin.