Adversity Quotes

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success

Democrats can't survive in any kind of adversity. Look at how they're crying and whining like a bunch of stuck pigs over the mean Russians.

In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

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.

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

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.

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.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

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.

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

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

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

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Remorse begets reform.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

Adversity creates heroes.

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.