Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2): for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us sympathize with them with all our heart.
Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.
Every path hath a puddle.
We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.
There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us.
Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.
Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Life didn't promise to be wonderful.
In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.
In adversity, everything that surrounds you is a kind of medicine that helps you refine your conduct, yet you are unaware of it. In pleasant situations, you are faced with weapons that will tear you apart, yet you do not realize it.
Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.
In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.
Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?