Browsing Quotes With Tag: adversity (10)
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Failure is the condiment that gives success it’s flavor.
Speaker: Truman CapotePosted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Just because you find something difficult to do, don’t think it’s humanly impossible. If something is humanly possible and appropriate, believe that it can be also attained by you.
Speaker: Marucs AureliusSource: Hurry Up and MeditatePosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“...before great moments, certainly before great spiritual moments, there can come adversity, opposition, and darkness.”
Speaker: Elder Jeffrey R. HollandSource: Ensign, March 2000Posted: 29 Aug 2013 at 4:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never destroy any aspect of personality, for what you think is the wild branch may be the heart of the tree.
Speaker: Mrs. Henry GeorgePosted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What is past is prologue.
Posted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The height of great men reached and kept
Were not obtained by sudden flight;
But while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People are like stained glass windows. They glow and sparkle when it is sunny and bright; but when the sun goes down their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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.
Speaker: Anne Dudley BradstreetPosted: 09 Dec 2008 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!