Adversity Quotes - Page 5

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat men to whom a crises which intimidates and paralyzes the majority comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

When the world has once begun to use us ill it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?

Bible

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Fridiric Chopin

Fire tries gold misfortune men.

Anonymous

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

Abraham Lincoln

Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Bible

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Emily Dickinson

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

José Ortega y Gasset

Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Septima Poinsette Clark

I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Tennessee Williams

What we want is never simple.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Benjamin Franklin

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.

Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.

Sir Walter Scott

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

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.

Anonymous

Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Brooke Foss Westcott

What does not destroy me makes me strong.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.

From a fallen tree all make kindling.

Spanish Proverb

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Sophocles

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Spanish Proverb

Even in the deepest sinking there is the hidden purpose of an ultimate rising. Thus it is for all men from none is the source of light withheld unless he himself withdraws from it. Therefore the most important thing is not to despair.

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.

Anonymous

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.

Edward Noyes Westcott

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

I am escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Bible

Prosperity tries the fortunate adversity the great.

Pliny the Younger

Be willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence every one must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Solon

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

I don't deserve this award but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.

Charlotte Brontë

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

Charles Caleb Colton

Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.

Seneca

Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

William Faulkner

A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.

I've had an unhappy life thank God.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Baltasar Gracián

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King

Don't let yesterday’s storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The future glory far outweigh the present troubles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to fight the odds in life to be able to reach a greater height.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never put your trust in men. You will be disappointed. In any situation, ask yourself, “What can I do for myself to overcome the situation”.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is possible to rise above any adversity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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