#adversity

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

Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change. ↗

— Mary McAleese

#am #america #brings #change #changes

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity. ↗

— Periander

#moderate #prosperity #prudent

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in. ↗

— James Reston

#adversity #always #austerity #been #doing

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity. ↗

— John Hawley

#day #desire #fail #faith #i

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#adversity #becomes #been #considered #easily

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#brave #broken #carries #child #created

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#fortunate #great #prosperity #tries

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#friends #makes #prosperity #them #tries

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl. -In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#becoming-better #trials-of-life #life