Adversity Quotes

"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Someone once said, ‘Adversity introduces a man to himself.’ For some reason, that’s scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger."

- Max Cleland

""A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.""

- Proverbs 17:17

"I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life."

- LaMarcus Aldridge

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."

- Lee Iacocca

"Debts are like children – begot with pleasure, but brought forth with pain."

- Moliere

"Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like."

- Will Rogers

"I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention."

- Ron Kittle

"Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of."

- Josh Billings

"It is harder to stream when the when."

- Tom Simons

"Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough."

- David Levithan

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

- William Shakespeare

"Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave."

- William Shakespeare

"Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."

- William Shakespeare

"You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves."

- Rachel Ward

"It's so hard saying goodbye... it's hard saying good bye to all the things that one has held dear for weeks, months, sometimes years."

- Saqib Saleem

"There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye."

- Jeff Thomas

"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."

- King Solomon

"Being a new teacher is like trying to fly an airplane while building it."

- Rick Smith

"A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to."

- Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

"Parenting a child with special needs will be the greatest challenge of your life, and if you make good choices, it may also prove one of the most rewarding."

- Judy Winter

"It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness."

- Edith Wharton

"Into each life some rain must fall."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even bear to have me mime."

- Sara Sheridan

"We started with a simple hello, but ended with a complicated goodbye."

- Unknown

"True goodbyes are the ones never said."

- Unknown

"Goodbye isn’t painful, unless you’re never going to say hello again."

- Unknown

"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time."

"Teaching is a walk in the park. If that park is Jurassic park."

"Zombies don’t die."