Adversity Quotes

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations.

How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness.

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.

Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.

When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life.

A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.

It would be great to not have any injuries and just go out and play football and have fun ... But in life there are adversities, and it all just depends on how you overcome them.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Remember to be calm in adversity.

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.