Quotes by Adversity A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity. Frederick Ferre adversity moments opportunity As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. Frederick William Robertson adversity broken men It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue. Friedrich Schiller adversity challenges school From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. Franz Kafka adversity courage people Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory. Fulton J. Sheen sunshine adversity inspiration Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not necessarily make us repent. The essence of repentance is that we cannot be repentant until we confront our own self righteousness with God's righteousness. Fulton J. Sheen adversity self war Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore. Gabriel Garcia Marquez adversity grateful hatred Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living. Gao Xingjian adversity problem reason It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. Garrison Keillor adversity inspirational life It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Gabriel Garcia Marquez adversity grateful romantic The sun rises every day. What is to love? Lock the sun in a box. Force the sun to overcome adversity in order to rise. Then we will cheer! I will often admire beautiful sunrise, but I will never consider the sun a champion for having risen. Garth Stein adversity cheer beautiful Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. Fyodor Dostoevsky adversity suffering men What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight? Fyodor Dostoevsky adversity light hero To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful. Gary Player adversity determination successful originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. Fyodor Dostoevsky adversity self-esteem struggle That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,. Gary Player adversity discipline loss When the Lord instills hope and faith and peace and assurance in people, they can bring great things to pass. This, then, is often what we should look for when we ask for help-not a miracle to solve our problem for us, but a miracle inside, to help us come to the solution ourselves, with the Lord's help and the Lord's power. Gene R. Cook adversity miracle people It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach. George Arthur Buttrick adversity shining broken Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character. George Ade nobility adversity character If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk. George A. Sheehan adversity race winning «1516171819202122232425»
