Adversity Quotes

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

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.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

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.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

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.

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.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

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 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.

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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