Adversity Quotes

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...

It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself ev...

The birth and growth of modern antisemitism has been accompanied by and interconnected with Jewish a...

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not l...

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. ...

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...

I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

To live is to war with trolls.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very ...

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when...

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;Every arrow that flies feels the attractio...

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain d...

Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher ...

Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we lo...

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all...

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been test...

For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe i...

I don't deserve this award but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

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.