Adversity Quotes

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

Hardships make or break people.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

Everyone deals with adversity. It's how you bounce back from it.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.

Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

In our adversity, God shouts to us.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

I have had the privilege of losing everything.