By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don't really embrace it. I just say it's a lucky day.
When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.
How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Adversity creates comedy.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
My family was very notorious in the town that we lived in. Everyone would say, 'There goes those damn Sams.' I didn't want to paint that ill picture of me. I knew the good in my family. They didn't know our background and the adversity we had to endure. I wanted to succeed and be a beacon of hope in my family.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
