What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. -Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek
Tag: Adversity
Adversity
It’s easy to be a gentleman when all is going well. It’s a sunny day, the woman on your arm is looking fine, there’s
Aeschylus
Horace
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Malcolm Forbes
Portuguese proverb
Sir Douglas Bader
Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches
Norman Vincent Peale
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Charlotte Bronte
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be