Quotes about Adversity
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
- Thomas a Kempis
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
- Viktor E. Frankl
He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.
- Charles Spurgeon
When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
- Booker T. Washington
Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.
- AB Simpson
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
- Albert Camus
Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.
- Tony Evans
Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.
- Tony Evans
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
- William Wordsworth
You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
- Winston Churchill