Dalai Lama Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Sleep Quotes

Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Sleep Quotes

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Failure Quotes , Adversity Quotes

The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Cat Quotes

In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lou Holtz Quotes , Motivation Quotes , Adversity Quotes

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Facts Quotes

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Evil Quotes

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Life Quotes , Adversity Quotes

In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Race Quotes

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Adversity 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

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Men Quotes

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , War 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

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Country Quotes , Adversity Quotes

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Introducing Quotes

When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Crush Quotes , Adversity Quotes

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Looks Quotes

Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Sea Quotes

We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. Theodore Tuttle Quotes , Failure Quotes , Adversity Quotes

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Adversity Quotes