Despite Adversity Quotes

#1. Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

Austin O'Malley

#2. As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. 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.

Angelica Hopes

#4. It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

Christo

#5. Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.

Harold Urey

#6. Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

Tori Amos

#7. It used to be that people had a way of dealing with the world that was basically, 'I have a feeling, I want to make a call.' Now I would capture a way of dealing with the world, which is: 'I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text.'

Sherry Turkle

#8. Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

Jerry Bridges

#9. Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.

Debasish Mridha

#10. And let each one of the crowd try and shout it very loud, In honour of an animal of whom you're justly proud, For it's Toad's - great - day!

Kenneth Grahame

#11. It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.

Simon Sinek

#12. Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

Tariq Ramadan

#13. Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

Napoleon Hill

#14. Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support.

Debasish Mridha

#15. A memoir is meant to be an impression of life, and not a photograph.

Jennifer Finney Boylan