Quotes about Adversity
...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.
- Ted Dekker
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
- Mark Twain
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
- William Faulkner
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
- George Eliot
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
- GK Chesterton
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
- Ezra Taft Benson
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
- Henry Ward Beecher
But living in fear is no kind of life. We have to trust God. That doesn't mean bad things won't happen. But we know He's in charge.
- Terri Blackstock
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
- Tertullian
He who flees will fight again...
- Tertullian
when something painful or disagreeable happens to me, instead of a melancholy look, I answer by a smile. At first I did not always succeed, but now it has become a habit which I am glad to have acquired.
- St. Therese of Lisieux