ADVERSITY QUOTES III
quotations about adversity
Adversity makes men; good fortune makes monsters.
FRENCH PROVERB
Overcoming adversity is the mark for a championship team.
MASON GALLEGOS
"Hockey Starts Postseason Hunt, Takes First Loss of '16", NYU News, February 22, 2016
Triumphing over adversity is inspirational; recounting bitter and futile loss is not.
MICHAEL CLARK
"MOVIE REVIEW: 'Deepwater Horizon' a quasi-decent disaster flick", Gwinnett Daily Post, September 29, 2016
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind.
ISAAC BARROW
"Of Patience"
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
All have their miseries.... He is not truly a man who has not experienced adversity.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The best way to deal with adversity is to not have it.
WILTON SPEIGHT
"College football: Adversity no issue for U-M", Southbend Tribune, September 18, 2016
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
ANNE BRADSTREET
Meditations Divine and Moral
Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man has ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.
JOHN NEAL
Forbes Magazine, 1970
Challenges are where you grow, adversity is what makes you stronger.
RYAN MCGUYRE
"Baylor Volleyball Treks to Showdown with No. 8 Kansas", Baylor Bears, September 30, 2016
Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.
BHARTRHARI
attributed, Splendors of the Pearl
Adversity is real, and if you let it beat your, you stay in that slump.
MERCEDES LEWIS
"View from the O-Zone: 'Nobodys fault outside mine'", Jacksonville Jaguars, September 25, 2016
Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
Thoughts of a Christian Optimist
As soon as ever thou feelest that any tribulation or adversity is coming upon thee, turn thy mind to the Lord, and commit thyself utterly to Him, without murmuring or seeking a reason for the injury. If thou wilt lament, instead of laying thy complaints before men, lay them humbly before the Lord, treating with Him of whatever grieves thee, as with a most pitiful Father and most present Helper. For His sake bear all things with equanimity. Though the devils lie in wait, and spread the snares of temptations; though thou findest the path of virtue and justice difficult; though one slanders and another oppresses thee; though the cold pinches and the heat burns thee; though thy stomach is weak and thy head aches; though rottenness enter into thy bones, and swarm under thee; though thy mind is overclouded and covered with darkness, and tormented by uncertainty; though thy weary spirit slumbers and is chilled by interior coldness; do thou ever remember to preserve thy patience.
LUDOVICUS BLOSIUS
Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois
It doesn't matter how many setbacks you come across, it's the comeback that will make your story stand the test of time.
TOFE EVANS
"Adversity Is Your Greatest Tool"
Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot.
ANONYMOUS
Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages
Adversity is hard, but the only way you are going to come out of it a stronger individual is if you make the most of it, learn from it, and move on.
MARIA BALDWIN
"Learn how to overcome your struggles", Daily Eastern News, February 11, 2016
Prosperity often presages adversity.
HOSEA BALLOU
Edge-Tools of Speech
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
JOHN WOODEN
Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle
Adversity is hitting all of us in the mouth. That's going to happen in life. We have to overcome it.
TAGGART MOORE
"Lonoke head coach resigns, interim coach tries to keep team afloat", Arkansas Online, September 29, 2016