Quotes About Adversity

John P. Forsyth

If George Apley failed to meet certain challenges, let us admit that we all have failed in some respects, and let us remember that we stand together peculiarly as one large family. Collectively, in habits and ideals, our group is a family group where kinship, however distant, stretches into the oddest corners.

He was speaking more rapidly and confidently and suddenly Charles understood that he was cutting the cloth to fit his faults, as everyone did at some time or other.

Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.

True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.

Satan . . . afflicted Job with loathsome sores," Job's response was, "Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

God has his ways to loosen your roots.

Of all the books which can be put into your hands, those which relate the labors and suffering of good men are the most interesting and instructive.

God gets glory when two very different and very imperfect people forge a life of faithfulness in the furnace of affliction by relying on Christ.

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong" (Job 1:22, RSV).

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

One riot, one cowdog.

I don't like to complain about life's little ups and downs, but maybe we should talk about it.

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots." - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

They said that we would be down and out on heroin. The success was a fuck you. There's a lot of fuck you-ness about me – my basic fuck you-ness has survived.

If Fastnet 79 teaches us anything universal, it is that the best storm tactic often is unrelenting human resourcefulness, courage, and spirit.

Why worry about things you have no control over?

What does not kill me makes me stronger!

If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination and no sense of history.

Anything that can possibly go wrong, does