Quotes and Sayings About Adversity
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The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.
-- Wes Moore -
Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.
-- Wes Fesler -
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
-- Wilfred Bion -
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
-- Will Rogers -
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
-- William Arthur Ward -
The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing on your own what is right without prodding. It is an inner critic that refuses to tolerate less than your best. Total discipline overcomes adversity and physical stamina draws on an inner strength that says "drive on".
-- William G. Bainbridge -
We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.
-- William H. Macy -
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
-- William Hazlitt -
I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That's what's numbing - if you think you can't change, you can't be better. And I didn't like that.
-- William J. Clinton -
I will get things done for America.... Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.... Faced with adversity, I will persevere. I will carry this commitment with me this year. I am an Americorps volunteer.
-- William J. Clinton -
If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.
-- William J. Clinton -
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
-- William Osler -
We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
-- William Penn -
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.
-- William Ralph Inge -
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
-- William Samuel Johnson -
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
-- William Shakespeare -
When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and hurtfulness of sin; and therefore now I will mourn, not because I am crossed, but because I have deserved this cross, and a worse too."
-- William Whately -
Adversity and challenges are life’s way of creating strength. Adversity creates challenge, and challenge creates change, and change is absolutely necessary for growth. If there is no change and challenge, there can be no growth and development.
-- Willie Jolley -
Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.
-- Willie Jolley -
We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and a government. Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. We are able to do that because our culture, though certainly diminished, has sustained us since time inmemorial. This Cherokee culture is a well-kept secret.
-- Wilma Mankiller -
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
-- Wilma Mankiller -
My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.
-- Wilma Mankiller -
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
-- Woodrow Wilson -
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
-- Woodrow Wilson -
The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
-- Wynton Marsalis -
We cannot conduct reforms that affect the people adversely. If therapy drags out for decades and no gleam of light is seen, it is certainly not in the interests of the country, not in the interests of the people.
-- Yevgeny Primakov -
If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
-- Zig Ziglar
