Against Adversity Quotes

#1. Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

Napoleon Hill

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

Seneca.

#3. A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand.

Faith Brashear

#4. We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

William H. Macy

#5. We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus

#6. Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.

Jan Carlzon

#7. Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

Abu Bakr

#8. I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

Dean Karnazes

#9. Such
times are rare, such times are fleeting, but always bright when caught, measured, hung, and later regarded
in times of adversity, there in the kinder halls of memory, against the flapping of the flames.

Roger Zelazny

#10. The struggle against an obstacle inevitably propels the fighter to a new level of functioning. The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.

Ryan Holiday

#11. Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

Thucydides

#12. When the winds of adversity come, remember one thing
kites fly the very highest against the wind. Kites don't fly in spite of opposition, kites fly high because of opposition. In fact, they couldn't fly without opposition.

John By

#13. Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. Education is the best weapon to fight against the adversity of life.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Life's tempering and altering process often takes the form of adversity, and, as far as outward appearances are concerned, seems to be working against us when it is actually working for us.

Chris Prentiss

#16. Your back may be pushed against the wall, but your brain is not.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

Napoleon Hill

#18. Save money for adversity, wife against riches undoubtedly,
But save the soul even against wife and riches invariably.
[6] 1.6 Chanakya

Munindra Misra

#19. Those who rise to greatness, have endured enormous struggles in their lifetime. It is through their challenges that they forge their will to survive and to keep rising to the top no matter what adversity is thrown against them.

Timothy Pina

#20. A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart

Bill Parcells

#21. To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

Frank Herbert

#22. In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

Thomas Malthus

#23. My Akri says that tragedy and adversity are the stones we sharpen our swords against ao that we can fight new battles.- Simi

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#24. In the day of prosperity rejoice, but in the day of adversity consider: God hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Anonymous

#25. Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

Nancy Mitford

#26. Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.

Max Anders

#27. The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Abraham Lincoln

#28. Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Decca: sisters are life's cruel adversity.

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

Mary S. Lovell

#29. We all have weakness and strength. I have to fight against the weakness in my personality. Everyone of should fight against the weakness of the soul. Seek to build on your strengths.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. They had stood against all adversity to be together, and now they would forge their own path to love. She would be Kai's wife. She would be the Commonwealth's empress. And she had every intention of being blissfully happy for ever, ever after.

Marissa Meyer

#31. Having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.

Charles Bukowski

#32. When you have a powerful, long-term vision for something, even against all odds and adversity, you will continue to make progress and people will want to get on board. Why? Because everybody wants to be a part of something great.

Robin Crow

#33. Not every bad break is negative in the long term; not every problem is a bona fide injustice; and not every injustice is major when juxtaposed against the millions of injustices that occur daily throughout the world.

Robert Ringer

#34. You must laugh in the face of adversity. In the end, humor is the greatest weapon against the pain. The

K. Hollan Van Zandt

#35. Facing the world full of confidence is sometimes out of your league particularly if you have come up against or been compromised by adversity in some form.

Auliq Ice

#36. When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong
or absolutely right.

Albert Guinon

#37. The cabin will return to the soil when abandoned by its owner, yet in its simplicity it offers perfect protection against the seasonal cold without disfiguring the sheltering forest. With the yurt and the igloo, it figures among the handsomest human responses to environmental adversity.

Sylvain Tesson

#38. If you have Hope for a needed change ... Faith that it will happen someday & Courage to stand against all adversity and make it happen ... You have the dire tools to change the world!

Timothy Pina