Adversity Quotes - Page 30

Despair is anger with no place to go.

If you can't live through adversity, you'll never be good at what you do. You have to live through the unfair things, and you have to develop the hide to not let it bother you and keep your eyes focused on what you have to do.

Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Let’s face it, we’re all imperfect and we’re going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.

Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.

After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

Remember to be calm in adversity.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Don't try to live too many days at a time.

Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.