Quotes about Adversity

The character you possess during the drought is what your team will remember during the harvest.

True virtue never looks so lovely as when it is most oppressed, and the divine excellence of real Christianity is never demonstrated as clearly as when it faces trials.

Licitis perimus omnes

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Simply suffering—that is what will be needed then—not parries, blows or thrusts such as may still be possible or admissible in the preliminary fight; the real struggle that perhaps lies ahead must simply be to suffer faithfully... For sometime the church struggle hasn't even been about what it appears to be about; the lines have been drawn somewhere else entirely.