Quotes About Adversity

The bread of adversity, and the water of affliction.

They shall be as thorns in your sides.

Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don't. Some can't.

Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim.

Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation.

Oh, why don't you work like other men do?How the hell can I work when there's no work to do?

Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.

If God be for us, who can be against us?

Life is not like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow.

The best way out of a problem is through it.

Firefighters - your worst nightmare is just another day at the office.

When life throws you scraps, make a quilt.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

For I must to the greenwood go,Alone, a banished man.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better.

In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction: and in the day of affliction there is no more remembrance of prosperity.

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.

From all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

We're in the army now,We're not behind a plow;We'll never get richA-diggin' a ditch,We're in the army now.