Quotes about Adversity

God, God is against thee, old man; forbear! 't is an ill voyage! ill begun, ill continued; let me square the yards, while we may, old man, and make a fair wind of it homewards, to go on a better voyage than this.

No wonder there had been some among the hunters who namelessly transported and allured by all this serenity, had ventured to assail it; but had fatally found that quietude but the vesture of tornadoes.

so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee

Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat.

Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick!

Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

It is the harpooneer that makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted!

rejection is usually God's protection.

'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.