Adversity Quotes

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

Prosperity often presages adversity.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

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.

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

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

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.

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

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

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured.

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.

Many of our problems are blessings in disguise.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

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

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

I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

What we want is never simple.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.