Quotes related to James 1:2-4
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
— Aristotle
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
— Catherine of Siena
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
— Charles Dickens
You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.
— Jerry Falwell
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
— Booker T. Washington
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
— George Eliot
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
— Viktor E. Frankl
There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: 'Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'
— Amy Carmichael
Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.
— Charles Spurgeon
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
— Napoleon Hill
The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
— Booker T. Washington