Quotes about adversity
adversity prosperity easier
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity. Thucydides
adversity affliction may
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Thomas Watson
adversity wings sorrow
Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.
adversity sea evil
There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.
adversity faces facing-adversity
I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have. Stevie Nicks
adversity bored laughing
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh. Lawrence Durrell
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.
adversity poverty youth
In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth. Marc Chagall
adversity men doe
The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is. Thomas a Kempis
adversity men iron
As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
adversity heaven suffering
How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?
adversity men virtue
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
adversity temptation trying
Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.
adversity men way
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself. Shia LaBeouf
adversity messages problem
Problems are messages. Shakti Gawain
adversity battle faces
Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity. Steven Pressfield
adversity dizzy
Tis looking downward makes one dizzy. Robert Browning
adversity exercise men
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness. Tariq Ramadan
adversity men despair
Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.
adversity forever sparks
As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden. Josh Billings
adversity mind prosperity
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. Julius Charles Hare
adversity character ruins
Politics ruins the character. Otto von Bismarck
adversity giving wish
I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me. Mother Teresa
adversity firsts tasting
One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
adversity soul mind
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
adversity self-improvement i-can
I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible Les Brown
adversity goal reaching
Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. . Lennox Lewis
adversity fate born
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. Lee Iacocca
adversity pressure censorship
If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. Tatyana Tolstaya