Famous Quotes - Tags - Adversity

  • A reasonable amount o’ fleas is good fer a dog—keeps him from broodin’ over bein’ a dog,... More
  • Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long. More
  • Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as... More
  • Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are
    a... More
  • Against a spike
    Kick not, for fear it pain thee if thou strike. More
  • All legendary obstacles lay between
    Us, the long imaginary plain,
    The monstrous ruck of... More
  • By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean. More
  • Camillo. Prosperity’s the very bond of love,
    Whose fresh complexion and whose heart... More
  • Cripples, above all men, should be companionable, or, at least, refrain from picking a... More
  • Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness—a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her... More
  • Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make... More
  • Does the road wind uphill all the way?
    Yes, to the very end.
    Will the day’s journey... More
  • For of fortunes sharp adversitee
    The worst kynde of infortune is this,
    A man to han ben... More
  • From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.
    To what indifference... More
  • Give money me, take friendship whoso list,
    For friends are gone come once adversity.
    When... More
  • Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his... More
  • He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is... More
  • He knows himself, and all that’s in him, who knows adversity. More
  • Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
    Finds in adversity the seed of praise. More
  • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. More
  • I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure,... More
  • I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is six to five against. More
  • I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the... More
  • In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as... More
  • It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. More
  • It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s own advantage and to that... More
  • It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a... More
  • Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. More
  • Let’s shake our heads and say,
    As ‘twere a knell unto our master’s fortunes,
    We... More
  • Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to... More
  • Looks like we got a trial ahead of us. But it’s not the first time. We’ve had to go it alone... More
  • Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. More
  • Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train... More
  • Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then,... More
  • Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity. More
  • One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune... More
  • Only after one has tasted the bitterest of bitterness can one be a superior person. More
  • Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember. More
  • Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon... More
  • Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?
    Of labour you shall find the sum.
    Will there... More
  • Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens,
    ‘Tis just the fashion. More
  • Sweet are the uses of adversity
    Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
    Wears yet a... More
  • tell my why the fen
    appears impassable, More
  • The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. More
  • The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far... More
  • The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further. More
  • The unhappy never want enemies. More
  • There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome—to be got over. More
  • There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. More
  • They who in trouble untroubled are
    Will trouble trouble itself. More
  • This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeits... More
  • Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. Thou hast caused men to... More
  • Thy fate is the common fate of all;
    Into each life some rain must fall. More
  • We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to... More
  • What sport shall we devise here in this garden
    To drive away the heavy thought of care? More
  • When sorrows come they come not single spies,
    But in battalions. More

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