Quotes about Adversity
How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?
- Thomas a Kempis
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
- Laurence Sterne
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
- CS Lewis
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
- Samuel Johnson
Peace doesn't mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you.
- Tony Evans
Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.
- Thomas a Kempis
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Were our spirits hardy we would be able to meet the most disturbing situation with peace and rest.
- Watchman Nee
Heartbreak is life educating us.
- George Bernard Shaw
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.
- Henry David Thoreau
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
- Walt Whitman
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Mark Twain