Adversity Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long…

— Matthew Arnold

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires…

— Mary Church Terrell

“Sediments of stones scatter as the ego hath crushed, weather of life changes every form , be it rock or a human!”

— Soumya V

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some…

— Anna Comnena

“We may pass through the fiery furnace, we may pass through deep waters, but we shall not be consumed nor overwhelmed. We shall emerge…

— George Q. Cannon

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Even rocks erode under the smooth flow of water. The strongest of wills give in to the doubtful whispers of friends and hidden enemies.”

— M.B. Watson

“You see that stones are worn away by time, Rocks rot, and twoers topple, even the shrines And images of the gods grow very…

— Lucretius

“when serpents bargain for the right to squirm and the sun strikes to gain a living wage - when thorns regard their roses with…

— E. E. Cummings

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl,…

— Erasmus Darwin

By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage,…

— Robert Macfarlane