Quotes about Adversity
Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
— William Barclay
Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.
— Thomas Merton
Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
— Abraham Lincoln
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
— William Saroyan
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
— William Temple
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind;
— William Wordsworth
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
— Winston Churchill
We will have no truce or parley with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst—and we will do our best.
— Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
— Winston Churchill
We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.
— Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
— Winston Churchill