In adversity it is easy to despise life; the truly brave man is he who can endure to be miserable.
—Martial
Showing posts with label adversity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adversity. Show all posts
Sunday, July 07, 2024
Post #3237
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Post #3234
I'm a survivor, man...you can take all my clothes, everything I've got, throw me out in the desert, and I'll come back — fully dressed with a brand new car.
—Sammy Hagar (circa 1996)
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Post #3152
In many ways, the ocean is the great equalizer. Egos diminish in the face of a forty knot wind and fifteen-foot waves.
—Dennis Conner
Friday, June 28, 2019
Friday, March 15, 2019
Post #2785
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.
—Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
—Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Monday, April 02, 2018
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Post #2499
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
―Henry Ward Beecher
―Henry Ward Beecher
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Monday, December 05, 2016
Friday, July 22, 2016
Post #2125
Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct, but as adversity leads us to think properly of our state, it is most beneficial to us.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
Friday, June 17, 2016
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Post #2087
Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.
—Thomas Carlyle
—Thomas Carlyle
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Post #2052
Just as the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can wake into life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems which prosperity or negligence would cause for ever to lie hid.
—H.W. Shaw
—H.W. Shaw
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Post #1773
Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls.
—Hitopadeśa
—Hitopadeśa
Monday, June 30, 2014
Post #1586
The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties.
—Captain Frederick Marryatt
—Captain Frederick Marryatt
Monday, February 17, 2014
Post #1481
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, particularly being free from flatterers.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Post #1299
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
—Frank A. Clark
—Frank A. Clark
Friday, July 12, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Post #1207
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
—William Penn
—William Penn
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Post #1100
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
—Horace
—Horace
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · No Talent yet a Character