Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.
Adversity Quotes
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Trying times are times to try. The hammer shatters the glass but it forges the steel.
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
Adverstiy causes some men to break; others to break records.
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is […]
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, “I knew he was mortal.” So we in all casualties of life should say, I knew my riches were uncertain; that my friend was but a man. Such consideration would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.
‘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.
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
