#adversity

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. ↗

— Boethius

#been #fortune #happy #misery #sort

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ↗

— Epicurus

#adversity #being #being happy #challenging #courage

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know. ↗

— Brett Favre

#being #consider #good #i #know

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me. ↗

— Brett Favre

#always #because #been #bit #brought

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. ↗

— Chanakya

#difficulty #discharge #duty #friend #his

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#bear #cannot #dejected #endure #equal

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#hardly #honest #knows #man #principle

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#brings #constant #out #picture #reverse

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#being #both #contribute #deprived #either

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead. ↗

— Harold Ford

#adversity #ahead #better #care #days