Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Adversity Quotes
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to […]
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.
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.
