Adversity Quotes

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recove...

I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life becau...

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it...

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with peo...

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its v...

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked ...

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

For when God is said by these things to try men and prove them, to see what is in their hearts and w...

The strong version of the adversity hypothesis might be true, but only if we add caveats: For advers...

When the world has once begun to use us ill it afterwards continues the same treatment with less sc...

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to ...

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mo...

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe ther...

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your en...

I love those who can smile in trouble...

The most valuable gift I ever received was ... the gift of insecurity ... my father left us. My moth...

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

Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer ...

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you ale...

For every remote miss who becomes stronger, there are countless near misses who are crushed by what ...

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed...

In my youth poverty enriched me but now I can afford wealth.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham smoky to the taste thick-skinned and tender inside.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you a...

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plun...

Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a ha...

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encoun...

Integrity, wisdom, skill, intelligence – such things are forged in adversity.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it's important for you to understa...

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she ...

But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adver...

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves ...

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches the...

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, ...

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every dete...

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

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

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with...

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls t...

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment...

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat me...

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on hi...

Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dung...

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him...

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a proble...

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

To live is to suffer to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinar...

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To s...

I've had an unhappy life thank God.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especiall...

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with h...

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to h...

Pain is the root of knowledge.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, mo...

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence every one must take an equal portion mo...

When things come to the worse they generally mend.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...

I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typ...

Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dea...

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions because in forgiving them they had something to pr...

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have...

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to d...

Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence...

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the pa...

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundre...

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great ...

These are the times that try men's souls.

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with chee...

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relie...

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic tha...