Quotes About Adversity

How do you know when the obstacles in your path have been placed by God to protect you, or by Satan to hinder God's purposes in your affairs?

Do you have a situation in which you're having trouble discerning whether God is protecting you or Satan is hindering you? Ask God to show you His way.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that.

I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

The Master said, "What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui's joy. What a worthy man was Hui!" (Analects 6.11)

Kebanggaan kita yang terbesar adalah bukang tidak pernah gagal, tetapi bangkit kembali setiap kali kita jatuh.

Man who get kicked in testicles left holding bag

It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.

She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought.

It cannot rain but it pours." —JONATHAN SWIFT Oh

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.