Adversity Quotes - Page 53

"When in your life were you the most challenged?" I love to hear stories of adversity and how people overcome them.

Despite how difficult and hopeless it was at times, my experiences have shaped me for the better in many ways. It ultimately taught me empathy and invaluable lessons only learned through adversity.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

When we talk about adversity, this is the moment when character really gets tested. When things aren't going the way you want and you can't see anyway that they're going to go the way you want. That's kind of when those old virtues really become valuable and vulnerable also.

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.

Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

adversity is so rough a teacher!

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are with you every time you allow it. We are in every singing bird and in every joyful child. We are part of every delicious pulsing in your environment. We are not dead, and neither will you ever be! You will just get up, one day, and get out of the movie.

I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.

It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.