quotations about adversity
There is no education like adversity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Endymion
It is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
Prosperity is no just scale, adversity is the only balance to try friends.
PLUTARCH
attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts
Adversity is opportunity.
DAMION LEE
"From Lewis and Lee, leadership that transcends a scandal", WDRB, February 7, 2016
Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.
SENECA
Seneca's Morals
Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The Saint and His Saviour
Global fame wrought from adversity is different, an unescapable beast that hounds you everywhere you go. Dealing with adversity verging on the tragic isn't easy when the world wants to know everything about you.
WADE DAVIS
"Mick Fanning (sorta) retires for 2016", Surfing Life, February 23, 2016
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end ... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing ... this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
SAM
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
JULIA CAMERON
Prayers to the Great Creator
Being able to overcome adversity is a great triumph and something to be celebrated. Of course, no one's life will be without difficulty. We should be sure to cherish significant accomplishments in life. However, we must be careful when considering what we will classify as problems and challenges in need of overcoming. While certain characteristics may put a person at a disadvantage in the world as it is today, this does not mean that a certain aspect of their lived experience is the problem itself.
ELIZABETH HASCHER
"The narrative of overcoming", Observer Online, March 2, 2016
Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.
CHARLES F. STANLEY
How to Handle Adversity
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, and stumble from defeat to defeat.
RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI
Granta
Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
If we miss the opportunity for growth we waste our adversity and come out on the other side the same.
CLARENCE LEE JR.
"Adversity is Preparation", The Lee Blog
Adversity is not a curse, for it is often, if not always, necessary to our welfare and happiness. It is like medicine to the sick, which if it be unpalatable is still salutary.
T. J. SAWYER
The Christian Messenger, Jun. 23, 1832
Facing adversity is something I've never shied away from. In fact, I welcome it to come at me head-on. I'm strong enough to know that if I'm willing to fight for something I can have almost anything -- and this is no exception.
KRISTIANA PAGE
"Wanderlust and Lupus", Lupus News Today, October 3, 2016
I know adversity is not easy, but I also understand that if met with a positive mental attitude it's going to serve you well.
GLENN CARUSO
"Normality to combat cancer: Luke Hermann's fight off the football field", Tommie Media, September 20, 2016
All character is formed by adversity; but adversity is a very large word, and must be very largely interpreted. So long as it is understood to mean misfortune, external disaster or calamity only, its offices are sure to be misconceived, and its virtue will certainly be missed. Adversity may come in fair forms and bland disguises, seeming to be the very thing it is not. Things adverse are not always things repellent. They may be things attractive, deeply considered. Whatever is adverse, not to our pleasure, enjoyment or happiness merely, but to our virtue; whatever stands over against our better conscience, is opposite to our finest feelings, hostile to our truest principles, is adversity. It is the element of antagonisms, of opposition, of moral assault, let it appear in whatever guise it may. If it provokes our hearts to involuntary resistance, causes reaction and resentment, it is the discipline that educates character. And for this we must be on our guard. The finest characters are educated by struggle with adversity of this kind, by wrestling with powers that seem friendly.
O. B. PROTHINGHAM
"The School of Adversity", The Herald of Health, Aug. 1872
There is, too, a very great difference in the purpose served both by those events which we call adverse and those called prosperous. For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God