We’d never know how high we are, till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky.
Adversity Quotes
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
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.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of […]
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
