Adversity Quotes
There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.
Remorse begets reform.
a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...
Show MoreDifficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...
Show MoreDifficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...
Show MoreDifficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...
Show MoreDifficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's...
Show MoreUnless a man has been kicked around a little you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything...
Show MoreProsperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: ...
Show MoreProsperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains...
Show MoreBe willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the conseq...
Show MoreMen habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under...
Show MoreIt is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.
I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain...
Show MoreGreat difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are f...
Show MoreThe habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generatio...
Show MoreThe fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest gener...
Show MoreThe struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded ...
Show MoreIn the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome advers...
Show MoreIn the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more dif...
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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 ...
Show MoreLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defe...
Show MoreIf we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
Show MoreIf we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
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This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them cou...
Show MoreHope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing t...
Show MoreEducation 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 ...
Show MoreThose 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...
Show MoreThere 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...
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I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights sho...
Show MoreThe roughest roads often lead to the top.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the...
Show MoreThe 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...
Show MoreI am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence...
Show MoreI suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our par...
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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...
Show MoreAdversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens o...
Show MoreHe that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helpe...
Show MoreAffliction 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...
Show MoreThe most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known stru...
Show MoreAll 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; ...
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often th...
Show MoreNo difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the...
Show MoreHe 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...
Show MoreWere there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything bett...
Show Moreby indignities men come to dignities
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the...
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