Top 74 Adversities Quotes
#1. If we were always given a choice as to every path presented us in life, a multitude of roads leading to priceless treasures would forever go untraveled.
Be grateful for your adversities.
From toil and triumph evolves a life worth living."
- from "Brahna A'Mahr
Richelle E. Goodrich
#2. I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
Dallin H. Oaks
#5. Adversities are the best teacher and challenges are the best motivator.
Debasish Mridha
#6. When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life.
Dallin H. Oaks
#7. Those of us who have overcome so many adversities from a very young age, are privileged to be able to communicate profound insights and advice to others, speaking from a place of genuine confidence and knowing.
Miya Yamanouchi
#8. Fathers teach their best lessons to their children
by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.
Lynda Lovejoy
#9. Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint. The Lord is my comfort, my hope and my peace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.
Tariq Ramadan
#11. In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
Norm MacDonald
#12. Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Horace Mann
#13. It is not in the nature of man to bear the cross, to love the cross, to keep under the body and to bring it into subjection, to fly from honours, to bear reproaches meekly, to despise self and desire to be despised, to bear all adversities and losses, and to desire no prosperity in this world.
Thomas A Kempis
#14. A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.
Joan Z. Borysenko
#15. I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.
Napoleon Hill
#16. All the time, circumstances are not going to favor us. We shall have to
face obstacles and adversities. Fearlessness is the first virtue of a hero, the
starting point of all other noble virtues.
Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar
#17. To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.
Gary Player
#18. A person always has control over how she meets her adversities, and the good news is that the facing of them, one after another, year after year, builds an inner strength that nobody can take away from you.
Gail Godwin
#19. In the problems lie the opportunities. You become strong by facing adversities.
Debasish Mridha
#20. When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
John Lyly
#21. If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle.
Girdhar Joshi
#23. I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.
Augusten Burroughs
#24. Losses and adversities are frequently the means which the great Shepherd uses to fetch home His wandering sheep!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#25. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.
James E. Faust
#26. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.
Ron Fournier
#27. In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
#28. Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.
Dallin H. Oaks
#29. Passions cannot take wings in adversity, and adversities remain prevalent because of dormant passions.
Girdhar Joshi
#30. For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart.
Arthur W. Pink
#31. So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.
Albert Ellis
#32. The Church in her worst time still hath a blessed verdure of grace about her; nay, she has sometimes exhibited most verdure when her winter has been sharpest. She has prospered most when her adversities have been most severe.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#33. See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
John Of The Cross
#34. Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.
Napoleon Hill
#35. Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.
Dean Koontz
#36. Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#37. Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations.
John Of Kronstadt
#38. True freedom is in striving through adversities to accomplish all noble things that need to be done so that we may be free from any blame in the end!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#39. I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on.
John Wayne
#40. Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.
John C. Maxwell
#41. I admire great people who endure crisis and triumph over adversities of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#42. Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.
Jerry Costello
#43. It is our experiences in their entirety that proves to be the mold required to shape us into the person we need to be;for what is the point of life without an exceptional story of overcomed adversities?
Renee' A. Lee
#44. It is true that people are sometimes hit by adversities beyond their control. But those so affected are better helped when they are awakened to the resources they do possess than when they are told they don't have any.
Nathaniel Branden
#45. The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles
#46. All Saints have passed through much tribulation and temptation, and have profited thereby. And they who endured not temptation became reprobate and fell away. There is no position so sacred, no place so secret, that it is without temptations and adversities.
Thomas A Kempis
#47. There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us.
Richard Bentall
#48. Change is possible if you allow it to happen. Nothing in life is constant; it's always evolving and that's how life happens for me. Through my adversities I can reach new heights.
Chimnese Davids
#49. The power of inner strength lies in the ability to overcome the adversities of life and pressing onward toward the achievement of the goal.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#50. Blessed are you, who faced many adversities. You will be strengthen and soften.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#51. When you are happy with your achievements, you don't curse people and circumstances that were not favorable... You feel superior that despite of the adversities, you won, you achieved, and you conquered.
Girdhar Joshi
#52. A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
Ibrahim Babangida
#53. All we have to do is ask and believe that God will work on our behalf and give us what we need to overcome and rise above the adversities and stress that we are facing.
Tracie Miles
#54. She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.
Gail Godwin
#55. Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#57. I must accept those things over which I have no control. I must turn my adversities into advantages.
Stephen King
#58. Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.
Ellen Greene
#59. I had been so focused on why we were suffering through all these adversities that I had neglected to think about who could get me through them or how God was going to mold our hardships to be for his glory.
Tracie Miles
#60. If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
James E. Faust
#61. Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Philip Emeagwali
#62. I DECLARE God's dream for my life is coming to pass. It will not be stopped by people, disappointments, or adversities. God has solutions to every problem I will ever face already lined up. The right people and the right breaks are in my future. I will fulfill my destiny. This is my declaration.
Joel Osteen
#63. Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.
Massimo Marino
#64. What challenges us, what should break us, can in the end be our greatest blessing. Because our failures can make us great. Our most basic of human adversities can inspire within us an almost superhuman strength. Our weaknesses are simply our untested wings waiting to be flown.
Tillie Cole
#65. May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#66. If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#68. Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.
Owen Feltham
#69. Your response to opportunities, adversities and calling, determine the type of leader you become.
Andy Stanley
#70. Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.
Tom Brady
#71. It would be great to not have any injuries and just go out and play football and have fun ... But in life there are adversities, and it all just depends on how you overcome them.
Donovan McNabb
#72. Every great warrior must learn to endure and overcome the adversities of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.
Julie Andrews
#74. One of the greatest lesson is humility. Humility is like oxygen to the soul. You won't get too far without it!
Dina Rolle
