Quotes About Adversity

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

Our attitude should be: Whatever happens I will remain strong, courageous and happy.

Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful.

I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation.

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.