Quotes About Adversity And Change

#1. Flexibility is a learned mental skill. In today's dynamic world, your effectiveness as a professional depends
on your readiness to adjust quickly to the moments of need or opportunity, adversity, and change.

Jennifer Touma

#2. In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

Howard Schultz

#3. If you have Hope for a needed change ... Faith that it will happen someday & Courage to stand against all adversity and make it happen ... You have the dire tools to change the world!

Timothy Pina

#4. I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.

Sylvia Plath

#5. Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient youth, in which banquets last for ever, and roads lead everywhere, where all things are under the exuberant leadership of faith, hope, and charity.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. Whenever, you face a challenge, it is time for a change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

Aimee Mullins

#8. Adversity and challenges are life's way of creating strength. Adversity creates challenge, and challenge creates change, and change is absolutely necessary for growth. If there is no change and challenge, there can be no growth and development.

Willie Jolley

#9. Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.

Marvin J. Ashton

#10. Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

Giorgio Armani

#11. When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.

Chip Conley

#12. It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#13. I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That's what's numbing - if you think you can't change, you can't be better. And I didn't like that.

William J. Clinton

#14. Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#15. If you let tragedy change you,
You have already lost.

Nikki Rowe

#16. A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

Ross Perot

#17. Always wear pretty underwear, on account of you just never know.

Jill Conner Browne

#18. She woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.

Zora Neale Hurston

#19. Sometimes the worst brings out the best in you, Sometimes the lowest tide ushers in the biggest change, Sometimes the gravest wounds translate into deepest wisdom, Sometimes the nadir leads you to the zenith - All you need to do is - To Hold On

Manprit Kaur

#20. A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

#21. Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.

Mary McAleese

#22. In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

James Burgh

#23. The best antidote to stress is resilience ... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.

Lauren Mackler

#24. I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

Richard Paul Evans

#25. It's important for me to play women who can overcome adversity, make change, and take control of their lives. I think it's a great time for women in TV and film in general, and I want to help tell these stories.

Beth Riesgraf

#26. Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.

Charles Stanley

#27. A worker bee is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load heavier than herself.

Sue Monk Kidd

#28. The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.

Tove Lo

#29. Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.

George Galloway

#30. She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.

Nikki Rowe

#31. You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!

Wayne Dyer

#32. Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.

Debasish Mridha

#33. I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

Dominique Moceanu

#34. In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,
he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

Thomas Carlyle

#35. Adversity is a mirage. People, situations, and relationships sometimes change for the worst but inevitably clear a path for far better replacements. The continued journey will always find bliss.

Carl Henegan

#36. Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what.

Carol Piner

#37. You can't have love and honor, and neither will bring you peace.

W.M. Driscoll

#38. The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

Louis L'Amour

#39. It was as if this baseball coach had reached inside me, found a rusty switch marked: 'turn on before attempting use' - and flipped it.

Michael Lewis