No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
Adversity Quotes
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.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
