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Quotes About Adversity

It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but there is a long distance between hard and impossible.
~ Unknown
Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
~ Anonymous
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.
~ Edna Ferber
I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!
~ Melissa Etheridge
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~ Unknown
Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.
~ Unknown
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
~ Ovid
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
~ Unknown
The friend in 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.
~ Unknown
Friends are proved by adversity.
~ Unknown
Love is pulling together against all odds.
~ Smiley Blanton
People Trample Over Flowers, Yet Only To Embrace A Cactus.
~ James Joyce
Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us
~ Josh Billings
A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble
~ Voltaire
Let's make the best of the situation Before I finally go insane. Please don't say we'll never find a way And tell me all my love's in vain.
~ Eric Clapton
I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble. And sometimes you grab what's close to you and hold on as tight as you can.
~ Unknown
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
~ Mae West
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies
~ Swedish Proverb
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
~ Abba Eban
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
~ Louise Erdrich
True love never runs smoothly
~ Proverb
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
~ Proverbs
We all face storms in life, whether it is a storm like Katrina, a storm in a marriage, or a storm in our finances.
~ Franklin Graham
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
~ Billie Holiday