Adversity Quotes

Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

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?"

It is important in life to turn adversity to success

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.

Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.

I have learned... adversity can be one of the greatest gifts of all.

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.

I've had an unhappy life, thank God.

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.

The unhappy never want enemies.

Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."

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.

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested.

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

We must endure Adversity Bravely and cheerfully.

Difficulty is one of the prices that we pay for our blessings.

We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.

Adversity deprives us of our judgment.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

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.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.

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.

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.

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.

Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.

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.

Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.