Adversity Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“Weakness begets evil”

— Jo Goodman

“(The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has led him…

— Paul Brunton

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

— Erik Larson

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

— Peter Ustinov

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

— Clarence Darrow

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

— Samuel Johnson

“Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner…

— William James

I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the…

— John Burroughs

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of…

— Patrick Henry

Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility…

— Jim Perrin

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived…

— Samuel Butler

“It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only…

— Heda Margolius Kovaly