We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to d...
Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.
One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.
A rainbow is a storm's masterpiece.
Life kept throwing me storms, but I kept finding rainbows.
If a ship is strong, the ocean's tides do not trouble it.
A storm is never quiet because it is always calling out to the rainbow.
Storms come to teach trees and plants how to dance in the wind.
The prettiest flower still had to struggle to surface.
Calm yourself and you calm your storm.
I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
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