Quotes about Adversity
I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
— Abraham Lincoln
We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time, those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them. By the time we've found them, we already been defeated by adversity.
— Paulo Coelho
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
— Mae West
Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather
— Mahatma Gandhi
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.
— Malcolm X
But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, that they may stumble on, and deeper fall
— John Milton
As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours.
— John Milton
The boat is safe, secure, and comfortable. On the other hand, the water is rough. The waves are high. The wind is strong. There's a storm out there. And if you get out of the boat—whatever your boat might happen to be—there's a good chance you might sink.
— John Ortberg
for Owen, circumstances—whether amiable or painful—were not an excuse to stop resisting sin.
— John Owen
Prosperity hath slain the foolish and wounded the wise.
— John Owen
It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just, the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of Winter.
— Lancelot Andrewes
Last we consider the time of their coming, the season of the year. It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it at this time of the year, just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off, in solsitio brumali, 'the very dead of winter
— Lancelot Andrewes