Quotes about adversity
adversity genius fortune
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it. Horace
adversity heart good-times
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
adversity heart men
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
adversity opportunity giving
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
adversity distress hard
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. Herbert Spencer
adversity sleep wake-up
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.] Jean-Jacques Rousseau
adversity sleep wake-up
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
adversity simple feel-good
When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are. Esther Hicks
adversity want overcoming
Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!
adversity thinking perfect
Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done - complete and perfect. Ernest Holmes
adversity cities elevators
Never take an elevator in city hall. Harvey Milk
adversity hopeful positive-energy
Hope will never be silent.
adversity hands soul
Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. ... In this way the soul can become like soft clay in the hands of the Master. James E. Faust
adversity stimulus
Adversity is a stimulus. James Broughton
adversity men peculiar
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind. Isaac Barrow
adversity men wind
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Jerome K. Jerome
adversity choices rotten
It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all. James Agee
adversity problem reason
Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living. Gao Xingjian
adversity mma champion
Any true champion can bounce back. That's what being a champion is: being able to deal with adversity and being able to bounce back. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
adversity men fire
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. George Santayana
adversity men america
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else? George McGovern
adversity men suffering
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. Fyodor Dostoevsky
adversity thinking evil
For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short. Geoffrey Chaucer
adversity loss discipline
That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,. Gary Player
adversity affliction wheat
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
adversity introducing written
It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves. George W. Bush
adversity thinking choices
You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind. Ezra Taft Benson
adversity prosperity shows
It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends. Euripides
adversity certain mess
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. Francis Ford Coppola
adversity blessing christian-inspirational
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. Francis Bacon
adversity men danger
More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
adversity vices prosperity
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
adversity speech prosperity
It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."