Quotes about Adversity
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
- Tom Lehrer
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
- Samuel Johnson
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
- Thomas a Kempis
No man is without his load of trouble.
- Thomas a Kempis
A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.
- Charles Spurgeon
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
- Charles Spurgeon
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
- George Eliot
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
- Aristotle
I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
- Arthur Ashe
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
- Publilius Syrus
I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.
- Joyce Meyer