Quotes about Adversity
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
— CS Lewis
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
— Samuel Johnson
Peace doesn't mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you.
— Tony Evans
Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.
— Thomas a Kempis
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Were our spirits hardy we would be able to meet the most disturbing situation with peace and rest.
— Watchman Nee
Heartbreak is life educating us.
— George Bernard Shaw
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.
— Henry David Thoreau
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
— Walt Whitman
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
— Mark Twain
Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.
— Winston Churchill
Nations are born out of travail and suffering
— Mahatma Gandhi