Winston Churchill Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Years Quotes

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Years Quotes

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Doe Quotes

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Pain Quotes , Adversity Quotes

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Hard Times Quotes

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Office Quotes

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Temptation Quotes

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Vices Quotes

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abigail Van Buren Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Adversity Quotes

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Easy Quotes

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Hard Times Quotes

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Speech Quotes

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Issues Quotes

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Men Quotes

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Adversity Quotes

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Hardship Quotes

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ovid Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Adversity Quotes

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Strong Quotes , Adversity Quotes

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Choices Quotes

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Failure Quotes , Adversity Quotes

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Past Quotes