True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.
Adversity Quotes
It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all of the pain and all of the struggle. We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If […]
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We can attempt nothing great, but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
