‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows like a song. But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Adversity Quotes
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner; neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired […]
The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up… And fight for what you believe in?
The fire of adversity will melt you like butter, or temper you like steel. The choice is yours.
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily.
It is difficulties that show what men are.
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 the experience which is deemed so weighty.
