Joseph Addison Quotes

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Adversity is an opportunity for growth. And an opportunity to really know who your friends are.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

There are some things you can only learn in a storm.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Good things are often birthed from adversity.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think.

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

Life is not mean to be easy.