Adversity Quotes - page 3

You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans. (Mr. T)
Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.. View quote
Lennox Lewis
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment. View quote
Abby Sunderland
Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity. View quote
Nhat Hanh
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. View quote
John Ashcroft
Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. View quote
Napoleon Hill
God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth - but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vitalbreath of his life, man compromises by making over and over againa mechanical religion of it-a handy staff to lean on in times of adversity, a soothing balm for his conscience or a tradition to be followed. View quote
Meher Baba
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity. View quote
Periander
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. View quote
Henry Fielding
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what. (Steven Pressfield)
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. View quote
Zig Ziglar
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. View quote
Epicurus
The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes. View quote
Horace Greeley
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. View quote
Martha Graham
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. View quote
Robert Collier
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. View quote
William Arthur Ward
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. View quote
Horace
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. View quote
William Shakespeare
I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected contingencies. The optimal way to deal with this is not to give up in despair, but to move ahead using the best intelligence and resources that we have to overcome adversity. (Paul Kurtz)
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago? View quote
David Horowitz
In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase. View quote
Edward Bouverie Pusey
As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversity - let us also be partners in prosperity. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. View quote
Robert James Waller