Adversity Quotes

We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

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.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

Out of adversity comes opportunity.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life

Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.

Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to overcome adversity.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.