Adversity Quotes
Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.
In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.
I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.
When a thing you love faces adversity, you start to feel more protective of it. Also, you take an inventory all the time. You ask yourself, "Is this worth all my fighting?"
The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.
Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.
People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.
We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.
If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.
Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.
I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.
The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity.
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
