Rise Above Adversity Quotes

#1. What separates those who go under and those who rise above adversity is the strength of their will and their hunger for power.

50 Cent

#2. Hope is the one positive force to help us persevere during our darkest storms. Jesus gives us hope when He walks beside us through the fiery furnace and helps us rise above adversity.

Dana Arcuri

#3. The Lord doesn't always make our paths smooth sailing, but He does make it possible to rise above adversity.

Dana Arcuri

#4. I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Ayn Rand

#5. Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.

Mario Fernandez

#6. To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive those who have hurt you - for your sake, not because they deserve it.

Rick Warren

#7. A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

Van Jones

#8. Beauty gathered in the brightness of the sunny hours - is often best remembered in the quiet dark.

Winston O. Abbott

#9. I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

Christopher Isherwood

#10. May you find the courage to rise above any circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Man was, therefore, still a prisoner on his own planet. It was much fairer, but a much smaller, planet than it had been a century before. When the Overlords abolished war and hunger and disease, they had also abolished adventure.

Arthur C. Clarke

#12. My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

Robert Crais

#13. Applying the 80:20 rule, I would say that 80 per cent of our youth don't even care about politics or government. What they care about are their lives - their jobs, their boyfriends or girlfriends and, well, that's about it.

Chetan Bhagat

#14. It is possible to rise above any adversity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. When the past controls the present, the future is a rerun.

Anonymous

#16. Sometimes all it takes is a little watering everyday and a sunny day to follow, that's how weeds become flowers and new dawns rise - why would it be any less then for a human life?

Nikki Rowe

#17. I like to go on really nice dates. I've made some money, but I don't spend it on anything besides my rent. But I go to nice dinners. And I like to go with a girl.

Ansel Elgort

#18. I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

Kim Novak

#19. The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

Riz Ahmed

#20. You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

Terence McKenna

#21. The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

Richard Avedon

#22. Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.

Julian Baggini

#23. A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition ... is always a wise institution, and, in the present circumstances of our country, indispensable.

John Adams