Quotes by Adversity Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity. Daniel Defoe prosperityadversitymean Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk directly through adversity with love and ardent resolve. Daniel Gillies fearlessadversityhero Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life. Daniel Handler live-lifeinspirational-lifeadversity I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end. Daphne du Maurier adversitygrowthgiving Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity. David A. Bednar adversitysufferingneeds I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong. David Beckham proveadversitypeople Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity. David Cottrell defining-momentsadversitymay Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. David Hare adversitystrongtwo A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. David Hare adversitystrongmoon The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago? David Horowitz adversityclasscharacter There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming. David O. McKay adversitygrowthcharacter One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome. David O. McKay adversitytimefall What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course. David S. Baxter adversityrealblow Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit. David O. McKay adversityspiritualmind If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable. David Mitchell adversitypurposemean We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us! David Trumble adversitybrokentragedy Jesus didn't save you so you could cruise to heaven in a luxury liner. He wants you to be useful in His kingdom! The moment you got saved, He enrolled you in His school the school of suffering and affliction. David Wilkerson adversityschooljesus Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way. We articulate the truth of a situation by carrying the whole experience in the voice and allowing the process to blossom of its own accord. Out of the cross-grain of experience appears a voice that not only sums up the process we have gone through, but allows the soul to recognize in its timbre, the color, texture, and complicated entanglements of being alive. David Whyte adversityvoicecolor On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind. David Sedaris adversitychristmastwo Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time. Dean Koontz adversityfamilyheart«910111213141516171819»
