Adversity Quotes - Page 5

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And who knows? Others may be inspired to pick up their broken instruments, their broken lives, and begin again.

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

Just do the next right thing.

Then repeat indefinitely.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.

North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.

Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don’t have to stay down.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.