Quotes About Adversity

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Who can be patient in extremes?

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.

And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life.

Peace doesn't mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again.