Adversity Quotes

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

by indignities men come to dignities

Those things that hurt instruct.

Lincoln matured best in sorrow.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

Prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

Sweet are the uses of adversity Which like the toad ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

There is no education like adversity.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

What does not destroy me makes me strong.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

Be willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.