Adversity and Fate
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
—Hellen Keller (1880-1968 American author)
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
—William Penn (1644-1718 British philosopher)
Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65-8 B.C. Roman poet)
Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation.
—John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963 35th President of the United States)
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950 British playwright)
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
—Cornelius Tacitus (55-117 Roman historian)
Light troubles speak; great troubles keep silent.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65 Roman statesman and philosopher)
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
—Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish novelist)
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
—Francis Bacon (1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise.
—German proverb
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925 American politician)
We shall defend ourselves to the last breath of man and beast.
—William II (1056-1100 King of England)
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of man.
—Benjammin Disraeli (1804-1881 British Prime Minister and writer)
Chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.
—Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374 Italian poet)
For man is man and master of his fate.
—Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892 British Poet Laureate)