Quotes About Adversity

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about full of energy, jokes are never far away.

Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.

The jokes about how I look have actually made me stronger.

My dad always jokes that if I ever write an autobiography, which I'm not going to, it'll be called 'It's Tough in the Middle.'

Jokes about my surname aren't a big deal at all. In fact, that's what jokes are meant for - you laugh and then forget about it.

I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

by indignities men come to dignities

Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor.

But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well.

It was an high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things, which belong to prosperity, are to be wished; but the good things, that belong to adversity, are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia.

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

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.