Quotes About Adversity

It is not in the nature of man to bear the cross, to love the cross, to keep under the body and to bring it into subjection, to fly from honours, to bear reproaches meekly, to despise self and desire to be despised, to bear all adversities and losses, and to desire no prosperity in this world.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Even in situations which appeared to end tragically, in loss and death, much fruit will come from them.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity.

Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.

Thomas B. Buell

Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. 'We must find out about this new weapon,' he said. 'Are the American hitters plotting to murder him?

Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with

For a hundred that can bear adversity, there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

to be weak is not so miserable; but to be weaker than our task.

Always moreover where the Millions are wretched, there are the Thousands straitened, unhappy; only the Units can flourish; or say rather, be ruined the last.

The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Cut my legs off but don't take away my ability to think, dream, and write