~ Adversity Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When the world has once begun to use us ill it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.

Jonathan Swift

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text][A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

Jacqueline Cochran

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

William Faulkner

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

Dorothy Dix

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Edmund Burke

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Margot Asquith

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble and you'll probably make it through the next one.

Ruth Gordon

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Etty Hillesum

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Gail Sheehy

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

William Hazlitt

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I think there is this about the great troubles - they teach us the art of cheerfulness; whereas the small ones cultivate the industry of discontent.

Mary Adams

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

E. Annie Proulx

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France