Quotes about Adversity
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
— Phillips Brooks
Our murmuring is the devil's music.
— Thomas Watson
The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.
— Bob Marley
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
— Joseph Campbell
Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.
— Napoleon Hill
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
— Napoleon Hill
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
— Joseph Addison
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 thou be the friend of Christ?
— Thomas a Kempis
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
— Laurence Sterne