Quotes about Adversity

so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee

Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat.

Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick!

Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

It is the harpooneer that makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted!

'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.