Adversity Quotes - Quotes on Adversity
If thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can’t you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to bprison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like cwolves for the blood of the lamb;
THE DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS 122:6If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
-- Frank A. ClarkIf you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
-- Harry TrumanIf we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
-- Henry David Thoreau
And if thou shouldst be cast into the a pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the bdeep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to chedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of dhell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee eexperience, and shall be for thy good.
THE DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS 122:7If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
-- Mary EngelbreitThe Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he?
THE DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS 122:8
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
-- Robert Fulghum
If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.
-- UnknownIf you're going through hell, keep going.
-- Winston ChurchillSometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
-- Billie HolidaySometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.
-- UnknownStrong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
-- Ralph Waldo EmersonSweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, And good in everything.
-- William ShakespeareThat some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
-- James K. FeiblemanThe actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
-- Jean CocteauThe art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
-- Bernard M. BaruchThe beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
-- Virginia WoolfThe best way out of a difficulty is through it.
-- UnknownThe darkest hour has only sixty minutes.
-- Unknown