Adverse Circumstances Quotes

#1. We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.

Robert E. Wells

#2. It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#4. Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.

Amit Abraham

#5. Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

Pat Summitt

#6. Learning how to love your neighbor requires a willingness to draw on the strength of Jesus Christ as you die to self and live for Him. Living in this manner allows you to practice biblical love for others in spite of adverse circumstances or your feelings to the contrary.

John C. Broger

#7. To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.

Anne F. Beiler

#8. The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

Booker T. Washington

#9. Perseverance is one of the keys to overcome the adverse circumstances of life.

Prophetess Dina Rolle

#10. This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.

L. Frank Baum

#11. Prayers offered in faith and then followed by songs of thanksgiving, praise and worship are an expression of our faith and love for God. Joy results when you have faith in the greatness of God and his power to deliver and save you and others from adverse circumstances and enemies.

James Strand

#12. We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

John Calvin

#14. In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

Brian Herbert

#15. A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.

David Levithan

#16. As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.

Vladimir Lenin

#17. Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.

Ellsworth Huntington

#18. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#19. The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.

Henry Rollins

#20. The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Matthieu Ricard

#21. Feelings aren't truth,

Diana Gabaldon

#22. In life we have decisions to make, paths to take and opportunities to take advantage of.

Zayn Malik

#23. Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance.

Amit Ray

#24. It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But ... refusing to fellowship with believers will not make you one either.

Billy Graham

#25. If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

John Heywood

#26. Few people want witnesses to their pain, and grief is the worst pain of all.

Sabaa Tahir

#27. The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.

Gustav Holst