Adversity Quotes

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

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

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

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

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

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

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

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

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

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

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.