Quotes About Adversity

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.

Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.

The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.

Friends come and go, enemies linger.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.

I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

The good Lord never gives you more than you can handle. Unless you die of something.