Quotes About Adversity

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.

Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

If you've lost, you've lost.

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What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes—that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.

I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards—when I grew up—that things seemed always to go wrong.

Inspector Hardcastle walked in manfully. Unfortunately for him he was one of those men who have cat allergy. As usually happens on these occasions all the cats immediately made for him. One jumped on his knee, another rubbed affectionately against his trousers. Detective Inspector Hardcastle, who was a brave man, set his lips and endured.

Sloppy crying had never helped anyone yet.

She took disaster as it should be taken, dealing with it competently and thereby reducing it almost to insignificance.

Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory

So many things are difficult," said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often.

You have the clear brain. Yes, one cannot go back over the past. One must accept things as they are. And sometimes, Madame, that is all one can do—accept the consequences of one's past deeds.

Getting soft—that's the curse of the present day.

I have learned to save myself useless emotion