Adversity Quotes

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.

Misfortunes make us wise.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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

You've got to have some adversity and learn from it. I'm working hard, but I didn't expect a cure in one day. You learn. You move on. You hold your head up. You go on to the next day.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.

Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.

I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.

Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding.

Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.

Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

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

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.

Adversity creates heroes.

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.

Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

Don't try to live too many days at a time.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.