david strasser

In adversity it is easy to despise life; the truly brave man is he who can endure to be miserable. —Martial Get a Random Quote Here

I'm a survivor, man...you can take all my clothes, everything I've got, throw me out in the desert, and I'll come back — fully d...

In many ways, the ocean is the great equalizer. Egos diminish in the face of a forty knot wind and fifteen-foot waves. —Dennis Conner Get ...

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. —Plutarch

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue. ...

Adversity is the first path to truth. —Lord Byron Get a Random Quote Here

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. ...

Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. —Barry Cornwall Get a Random Quote Here

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. —George Canning Get a Random Quote Here

Remember to be calm in adversity. —Horace Get a Random Quote Here

Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct, but as adversity leads us to think properly of our state, it is most benefic...

He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure. —Chinese Proverb

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, a...

Just as the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can wake into life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden g...

Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections...

The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties. —Captain Frederick Marryatt

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, particularly being free from fla...

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. —Frank A. Clark Get a Random Quote Here

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. —Ben Jonson

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. —William Penn Get a Random Quote Here