Adversity Quotes
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
William J. Clinton
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
Allen Klein
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
John Hawley
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Elvis Presley
When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.
LL Cool J
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
Ben Okri
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.
Shelby Foote
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
Silvia Cartwright
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
David Hare
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
Paula Cole
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.
Heather Mills