Adversity Quotes

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

I have had the privilege of losing everything.

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.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.

No one's life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it's this adversity - and more specifically our resilience - that makes us strong and successful.

Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

Protect your vision. Prevail over adversity. Persevere in the midst of turmoil. Passionately act upon your convictions. Purposely walk into the day.

Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

Never take an elevator in city hall.

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

You have to act and act now.

Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.

Guys respect other guys who get it done on the field, play through adversity, and come through when it matters most.

With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.

I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

I mean, I think everyone at this level has a chip on their shoulder. Everyone's got a story. Everyone has had to go through some adversity to get to where they are at so, I guess, we all do.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.