Adversity Quotes

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome advers...

In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more dif...

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life we owe to it pity ...

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

If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them cou...

Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing t...

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

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

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

There is no education like adversity.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties ...

Those things that hurt instruct.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glor...

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you do...

I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights sho...

The roughest roads often lead to the top.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the...

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our lear...

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence...

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our par...

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.

They sicken of calm who know the storm.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever...

Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens o...

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helpe...

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go thro...

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known stru...

All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.

I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; ...

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often th...

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the...

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Treasure the memories of past misfortunes they constitute our bank of fortitude.

While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings t...

Were there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything bett...

by indignities men come to dignities

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the...

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

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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

by indignities men come to dignities

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the...

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

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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

by indignities men come to dignities

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the...

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

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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

by indignities men come to dignities

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the...

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

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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

As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set...

For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that...

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

What does not destroy me makes me strong.

Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, ...

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or o...

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,That one day we shall thank thee perfectlyFor pain and hope ...

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...