Adversity proverbs

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◆ Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ These are the times that try men's souls.

- Thomas Paine99

◆ Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

- Edgar Allan Poe99

◆ Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

- Oprah Winfrey99

◆ It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.

- Gordon B. Hinckley99

◆ If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

- Terry Goodkind99

◆ Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

- Sherrilyn Kenyon99

◆ But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

- Sarah Dessen99

◆ No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

- Randy Pausch99

◆ Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

- Arthur Golden99

◆ However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ I love those who can smile in trouble...

- Leonardo da Vinci99

◆ You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

- Mary Tyler Moore99

◆ Hardships make or break people.

- Margaret Mitchell99