Quotes about Adversity
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
— Marcus Aurelius
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
— Abraham Lincoln
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
— Abraham Lincoln
Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
— William Barclay
Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.
— Thomas Merton
Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
— Abraham Lincoln
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
— William Saroyan
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
— William Temple
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind;
— William Wordsworth
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
— Winston Churchill