And Adversity Quotes

#1. 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

#2. On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.

David Sedaris

#3. Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

Cathy Freeman

#4. My secret to survival has been embracing life's challenges and not letting them dictate my frame of mind or determine my fate ... Learning to stand strong in the face of challenge and adversity is the only way to get through the tough times.

Sandra Lee

#5. I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

Richard Paul Evans

#6. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

#7. Between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Amelia B. Edwards

#8. Win over the fear and adversity and prove yourself wrong.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Success is about more than simple resilience. It's about using that downward momentum to propel ourselves in the opposite direction. It's about capitalizing on setbacks and adversity to become even happier, even more motivated, and even more successful. It's not falling down, it's falling up.

Shawn Achor

#10. Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

Napoleon Hill

#11. Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

Anil Sinha

#12. Prosperity does not elevate the sage and adversity does not depress him. For he has always made the effort to rely as much as possible on himself and to derive all delight from himself.

Seneca.

#13. We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger.

John Wooden

#14. 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

#15. Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Aristotle.

#16. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Stephen Covey

#17. Everywhere and in every society, people endure suffering and adversity - even those who enjoy freedom and material prosperity. Indeed, it seems to me that much of the unhappiness we humans endure is actually of our own making.

Dalai Lama XIV

#18. This Bible of Mine? It is the breath of God spoken into my weary bones. It is the armor I need to walk the roads He has chosen for me, and it's the confirmation of promises that withstand the test of hours and adversity.
It's a love letter, and it has my name on it.
It has your name on it.

Angie Smith

#19. I believe it's a privilege, madam. One that's earned through a certain amount of courage and adversity.

Kathleen Tessaro

#20. Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it.

Brian Tracy

#21. No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.

Suzanne V. Marshall

#22. He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

Josh Billings

#23. If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

Nathaniel Branden

#24. Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.

Wes Fesler

#25. Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle ... we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.

Gay Hendricks

#26. Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#27. Every life has peaks and shadows and times when it seems that the birds don't sing and bells don't ring. Yet in spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser, and happier as a result.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#28. Pain and adversity are powerful vehicles to promote personal growth. Nothing helps you learn, grow, and evolve more quickly. Nothing offers you as big an opportunity to reclaim more of your authentic power as a person.

Richard Bach

#29. A face shaped by both love and adversity. But where neither held sway. They were balanced, point to point.

Cameron Dokey

#30. It's really that simple: love gave me confidence and adversity gave me purpose.

Kate Clifford Larson

#31. The consciousness of an embryo is the universal consciousness. What we learn after birth is awareness and egocentric consciousness that we call the mind. Everyday we learn to conform to the beauty, tragedy, and adversity of this world and that forms our judgmental mind.

Debasish Mridha

#32. We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

William Penn

#33. For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

Patricia Penton Leimbach

#34. Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#35. Death and adversity come to us all, but so does life everlasting!

Joy F. Evans

#36. I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

Aaron Levie

#37. We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!

David Trumble

#38. However, not all sorrow and adversity come as a result of disobedience. Some of the disappointments come from living in a fallen world. Many

Charles F. Stanley

#39. We are apt to call things by wrong Names. We will have Prosperity to be Happiness, and Adversity to be Misery; though that is the School of Wisdom, and oftentimes the way to Eternal Happiness.

Various

#40. Attack and adversity contribute to national cohesion in a way that success and affluence do not

Jan Dalley

#41. Integrity, firmness, and perseverance are qualities that all should seek earnestly to cultivate; for they clothe the possessor with a power which is irresistible - a power which makes him strong to do good, strong to resist evil, strong to bear adversity.

Ellen G. White

#42. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
[Meditations Divine and Moral]

Anne Bradstreet

#43. People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

Bobby Bowden

#44. Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

Maryam Jameelah

#45. I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.

Sandi Bachom

#46. But it's the temptation of so many suburban-raised children to invent tales of adversity, to create hardscrabble mythologies out of life histories marked by little more than field hockey games and orthodontist appointments.

Meghan Daum

#47. Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#48. In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.

Sarah Wilson

#49. Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

Louis L'Amour

#50. And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

Annie Proulx

#51. Having faced adversity and survived it, he's unlike others who haven't.

Peter Gray

#52. Even in the midst of life's adversity, struggle or strife; Love's enduring presence remains steadfast.

Eleesha

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

Tacitus

#54. There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only what Nerchinsk had taken, but what it had given her as well.

Alexandra Silber

#55. Only a master weaver could intertwine dark and light threads in such a way that all one saw was beauty when looking back at the finished tapestry.

Karen Witemeyer

#56. I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

Winston Churchill

#57. Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.

Charles William Eliot

#58. Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

Epictetus

#59. We are like water, aren't we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too. And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

Wally Lamb

#60. We must endure Adversity Bravely and cheerfully.

Sri Chinmoy

#61. Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.

Napoleon Hill

#62. You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#63. I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

Elizabeth Berg

#64. The respect + love for humanity that's why I travel.
We are all special and gifted beings, no matter our religious differences. The message should be peace,
love and prosperity. There should be no adversity but solidarity.

Henry Johnson Jr

#65. Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.
Thy friends do stand by thee ... '
-Jesus the Christ

Joseph Smith Jr.

#66. Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.

T. B. Joshua

#67. Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#68. If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

Boyd K. Packer

#69. I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.

Nikki Rowe

#70. Like words written in the sand taken away by waves
Thousands of years of culture discovered in lost caves
Climbing to a mountain at it's highest peak
Out of no where strength when thought down and weak

Justin Bienvenue

#71. Passions cannot take wings in adversity, and adversities remain prevalent because of dormant passions.

Girdhar Joshi

#72. I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#73. So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make the injured one a better person?

Elizabeth Harrower

#74. The best antidote to stress is resilience ... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.

Lauren Mackler

#75. His strategy of flying boldly into the face of adversity was studied and taught, and during the Clone Wars would come to be known as the Tarkin Rush,

James Luceno

#76. In times of trouble, be strong. And wait patiently for God to rescue you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#77. To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.

Kin F. Kam

#78. The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.

Bhartrhari

#79. Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

Walter Scott

#80. Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

Kerri Walsh

#81. The war had left his body pathetically damaged and weak, but his mind was as strong and clear as it had ever been, perhaps even tempered and made stronger by adversity. That, not madness, was his curse.

Dean Koontz

#82. Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts.

Richard Branson

#83. The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

Rumi

#84. As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

Horace

#85. It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.

Wes Walz

#86. The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.

Ben Bernanke

#87. Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

Daisaku Ikeda

#88. Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

Louis Kronenberger

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

David Hare

#90. The dirty laundry of our confessed sin belongs in the Lord's laundry hamper; for there He will toss them like mismatched socks as far as the east is from the west.

Cheryl Zelenka

#91. Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

John Bytheway

#92. Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#93. I sit in the lap of Adversity and nuzzle at her neck." Personal philosophy associated with the strife and difficulties of life.

Stephen C. Conley

#94. Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

Chiang Kai-shek

#95. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

E.B. White

#96. There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.

Ben Roethlisberger

#97. The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#98. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

Randy Thornhorn

#99. I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.

Mike Sherman

#100. Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Scott Hamilton