Quotes about adversity
adversity thinking states
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. Samuel Johnson
adversity dark tough-times
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. Ulysses S. Grant
adversity next firsts
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one. Ruth Gordon
adversity dark night
If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey. Rufus Jones
adversity wind broken
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. Robert Jordan
adversity destiny blessing
Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next. Virgil
adversity bird humans
What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans. Vincent Van Gogh
adversity tests inevitable
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life. Walter Annenberg
adversity discovery sorrow
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. Samuel Smiles
adversity enemy unhappy
The unhappy never want enemies. Samuel Richardson
adversity games guy
Everybody can have a bad game, and we did. These guys have all proven that they can handle adversity. We're in the midst of a little adversity. Wayne Graham
adversity humanity affliction
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. William Arthur Ward
adversity giving sorrow
As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.
adversity simple serious-illness
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths. Sonia Sotomayor
adversity people not-good-enough
Along the way there's going to be a lot of obstacles, a lot of adversity, a lot of people who will tell you you're not good enough. I'm here to tell you that you are. Everyone that tells you that you're not is because they didn't accomplish something. Tim Tebow
adversity men unhappy
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. Victor Hugo
adversity sight trials
With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure. Russell M. Nelson
adversity long challenges
I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one who has seen many challenges over a long lifetime, I can assure you that personal faith and conviction are strengthened, not weakened, in adversity. Ronald Reagan
adversity men prosperity
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. Saadi
adversity people stronger
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger. Philip Emeagwali
adversity two way
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. Phyllis Bottome
adversity light darkness
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death. Pythagoras
adversity promise wonderful
Life didn't promise to be wonderful. Teddy Pendergrass
adversity writing thinking
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something. Shelby Foote
adversity bored laughing
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh. Lawrence Durrell
adversity responsibility looks
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it. Sophocles
adversity sorrow causes
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
adversity voice able
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown. Soren Kierkegaard
adversity bitterness bears
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.' Marcus Aurelius
adversity giving nails
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.
adversity men endure
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
adversity cucumbers path
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
adversity helping harmony
When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.