Quotes about Adversity
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
- Viktor E. Frankl
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
- Malcolm X
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.
- Nelson Mandela
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.
- Euripides
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."
- Abraham Lincoln
Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
- Helen Keller
Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
How in the world could I have lived such a helpful life as I have lived had I not been blind?
- Fanny Crosby
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bi...ed from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
- Ernest Hemingway
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
- Cicero