Adversity Quotes

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat me...

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on hi...

Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dung...

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him...

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a proble...

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

To live is to suffer to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinar...

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To s...

I've had an unhappy life thank God.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especiall...

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.

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

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with h...

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to h...

Pain is the root of knowledge.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, mo...

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence every one must take an equal portion mo...

When things come to the worse they generally mend.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...

I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typ...

Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dea...

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions because in forgiving them they had something to pr...

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have...

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to d...

Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence...

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the pa...

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundre...

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great ...

These are the times that try men's souls.

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with chee...

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relie...

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic tha...

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon

Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their...

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...

Difficulties 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...

Difficulties 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...

Difficulties 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...

Difficulties 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...

Unless a man has been kicked around a little you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything...

Prosperity 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: ...

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains...

Be willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the conseq...

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under...

It 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...

Great 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...

The 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...

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest gener...

The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded ...

In 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...

In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more dif...

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 ...

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defe...

If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them cou...

Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing t...

Education 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 ...

Those 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.