Quotes about adversity
adversity greatest-gifts
Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity. Richard Paul Evans
adversity happy-life unhappy
I've had an unhappy life, thank God. Russell Baker
adversity wind storm
If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us. Thomas S. Monson
adversity opportunity significant
Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
adversity blessing burden
Every burden is a blessing. Robert H. Schuller
adversity victory-and-defeat long
If you live long enough, you'll experience everything. Robert Torricelli
adversity half christ
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine." Samuel Rutherford
adversity winter water
I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.
adversity thinking states
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. Samuel Johnson
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 silent innocent
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. Washington Irving
adversity heart giving
God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul. William Ralph Inge
adversity greatness rocks
Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health. William C. Bryant
adversity temptation soul
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. William Butler Yeats
adversity presence-of-mind tempest
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. Walter Scott
adversity dark doors
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
adversity
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
adversity fancy flags
In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
adversity gentleman enterprise
Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise. Winston Churchill
adversity thinking weakness
When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.
adversity trends horrible
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?
adversity issues doubt
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.
adversity years wish
I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.
adversity drunk down-and
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
adversity office feelings
If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.
adversity government world
Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their propaganda machinery. If words could kill, we shall be dead already.
adversity broken darkness
I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.
adversity men giving
Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.
adversity dark fighting
We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.
adversity too-late knows
God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.
adversity looks lines
It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.
adversity men bravery
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. Woodrow Wilson
adversity men understanding
God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless Saint Augustine