Adversity Quotes

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If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere. — Nathaniel Branden
In the day of prosperity, we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only One. — Horatius Bonar
No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it. — E. W. Howe
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses. — Horace
Remember to be calm in adversity. — Horace
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. — Wilfred Bion
For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really… — Robert Fulghum
Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values. — Robert Fulghum
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the… — Louis Kronenberger
Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary… — Robert Breault
People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. — Robert Breault
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. — Antonio Porchia
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. — Antonio Porchia
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. — Antonio Porchia
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. — Antonio Porchia
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only… — Jerome K. Jerome
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity. — Timothy Keller
Prosperity has no power over adversity. — Publilius Syrus
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… — Thomas a Kempis
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope. — Thomas a Kempis
As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness,… — Thomas a Kempis
Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love… — Dean Koontz
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy. — Boethius
It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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