Quotes about adversity
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
adversity men open-minded
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity. Will Rogers
adversity race wind
It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails. Wes Walz
adversity fighting ubuntu
The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right. Wes Moore
adversity people trying
We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives. William H. Macy
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 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 gods-will true-peace
True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God. Thomas Aquinas
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 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 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 giving trying
Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again. Robert Falcon Scott