Adversity Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Adversity
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Adversity can crush our spirit -
or strengthen it - it is our choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
Be open to the goodness of life -
even in the midst of apparent adversity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
Adverse Quotes and Sayings
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
True Quotes and Sayings
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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