Adversity Quotes
-
So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.
-
Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
-
As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversity - let us also be partners in prosperity.
-
If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
-
Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.
-
We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!
-
The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
-
To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.
-
...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
-
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
-
Adversity is the mother of progress.
-
Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.
-
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
-
I think I'm very calm in adversity, always remaining calm, and I don't panic. I think that's the main thing.
-
Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
-
Whenever we are going through adversity, we should be able to overcome it, that's what kind of team we should be moving forward.
-
Driving in clouds of dust and darkness beyond the outer suburbs the self-starter began to smoke. Grovelling under the vehicle among the ants and young scorpions, fearful of losing our feet when the great American lorries roared past, we attained the feeling of comradeship that only comes in moments of adversity.
-
Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
-
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
-
There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.
-
Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.
-
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
-
One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.
-
All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.
