When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that...

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

We can still find joy in the midst of the storm.

In the game of life;Sometimes we win,Sometimes we loss,Either ways, we should always keep playing.

Do all the works you can while you still have the strength to work.

People use that as a measuring stick of how this guy handles adversity, … It wasn’t losing a couple games in a row. It was a lot larger than that. I think he did a...

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you...

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

So, with my knees pierced by needles and my shoulder sewn together by the slender thread of endorphins, I keep to my genuflection and end my story the only way that really fits. As a...

Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you’re spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.

Sweet are the uses of adversityWhich, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Prosperity has many friends, even adversity has a few friends, but originality practicing the reality of altruistic humanity in life has only true friends.

Those of us who have come to know him can only admire his courage and perseverance in the face of adversity that would wither, wither the will of other men.

I fall asleepCall it deep while all is well be-Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean-While asleep on the couch I dream it’s a written piece and nowThe symphony’s soundingShouting out to these feet...

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

You have great talents. Aim for God best for your life.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

It is sad but so many tragedies can be avoided, if we extend a little bit of love to one another.

No one can foretell the details in a day, we can only hope.

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

Your past history is NOT an excuse.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. Thats the essence of it.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It’s from those circumstances that a person’s attitude is...

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief–acceptance.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

We face up to awful things because we can’t go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say ‘Yes, it happened, and there’s nothing I can do about it,’ the sooner you can get...

We haven’t faced a lot of adversity in our own end, but I’m sure they’ll be fired up when they hear that comment. They’ll be ready to go.

Affliction is a good man’s shining time.

A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later

We handled adversity well last week. Now we find out how we handle success. Some teams don?t handle it too well.

Look deeply into your soul. You have enough grace and strength to overcome any struggle.

May you always have extraordinary grace and faith to cope with the uncertainties of life.

The power of inner strength lies in the ability to overcome the adversities of life and pressing onward toward the achievement of the goal.

It’s during a storm that the best songs get written.

For the first time in my life, I fully realized that I was not in charge. I knew that I needed to submit to Heavenly Father’s will. I couldn’t have what I wanted when and...

The hardest thing about “everything happens for a reason” is waiting for that reason to show up.

I overcame adversity throughout the year. Even though we didn’t meet a lot of our team goals, my peers recognized me as one of the best. It was so rewarding.

Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God’s dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that...

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

If we didn’t know the definition of adversity before, I’m sure we know it now. (The loss) was tough to swallow.

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

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.”[Meditations Divine and Moral]

You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times.