Quotes about adversity
adversity genius prosperity
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it Horace
adversity genius fortune
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
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 resistance persons
I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance. Jennifer Egan
adversity fool stills
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something. Jean de La Fontaine
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 choices risk
Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made. Jason Kilar
adversity challenges humans
No human being is immune to adversity or personal setbacks. Hillary Clinton
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 dawn underestimate
This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity. Gideon Gono
adversity littles safe
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. Hosea Ballou
adversity prosperity
Prosperity often presages adversity.
adversity delight too-much
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
adversity calm remember
Remember to be calm in adversity.
adversity gale prosperity
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
adversity love unto
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. (Psalms 109:4)
adversity men broken
As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. Frederick William Robertson
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