Top 71 Best Adversity Quotes
#1. You are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.
Rosemary Rawlins
#2. In this wild world the fondest and the best
Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.
George Crabbe
#3. In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
Brigham Young
#4. Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
Brooke Shields
#6. If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)
Jeffrey R. Holland
#7. Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#8. Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges
battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.
Billy Graham
#9. I think the best people, the ones who have reached the highest plateaus as human beings, are those who have known a great deal of adversity and have dealt with it and then moved ahead.
Robin Gerber
#10. Education is the best weapon to fight against the adversity of life.
Debasish Mridha
#11. You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too seriously, and you can't use things as an excuse or you'll never get through.
Kristine Lilly
#12. One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.
John C. Maxwell
#13. Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.
Winston Churchill
#14. I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#15. Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times,
Thabo Mbeki
#16. It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'
Dan Quisenberry
#17. Whenever life is getting tough hold on.
Don't let it get the best of you stay strong.
Laqueisha Malone
#19. It's during a storm that the best songs get written.
Marty Rubin
#20. I feel it's okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don't stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.
Robin Roberts
#21. Don't focus on the adversity; focus on God. No matter what you go through, stay in faith, be your best each day and trust that God will use it to position you for greatness.
Joel Osteen
#22. Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.
Tom Cochrane
#23. Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
Thomas A Kempis
#24. God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.
Winston Churchill
#25. The best opportunities to be nice to others come in the face of adversity. Kindness wins. Reciprocity rules.
David Chiles
#26. Sometimes the worst brings out the best in you, Sometimes the lowest tide ushers in the biggest change, Sometimes the gravest wounds translate into deepest wisdom, Sometimes the nadir leads you to the zenith - All you need to do is - To Hold On
Manprit Kaur
#27. She built her character with the adversity she had faced, so she could live the best of her life for the rest of life.
Nikki Rowe
#28. In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ...
William Makepeace Thackeray
#29. As painful as some of the past year's changes have been, they will ultimately lead to a better place. The adversity you come across in life may cause pain, but with pain comes growth and the opportunity to rise to the occasion as your strongest, best self.
Jennifer Lopez
#30. We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.
Steve Nash
#31. She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.
Laura Lippman
#34. I would have to name two people - my parents. I've seen them come through adversity and work hard to create the best life for me and my siblings. Although I don't remember them together as a couple, I remember the love they had for their children.
Dwyane Wade
#35. Most of all, I am thankful for Lily, who, since she entered my life, has taught me everything I know about patience and kindness and meeting adversity with quiet dignity and grace. No one makes me laugh harder, or want to hug them tighter. You have truly lived up to the promise of man's best friend.
Steven Rowley
#36. Many times I had to dig deep and perform. All of that adversity helped me and drove me to want to be the best.
Hayley Wickenheiser
#37. Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.
Richard Paul Evans
#38. Adversity brings out the best in us ... It's everyday living that does us in.
Richard Flanagan
#39. I once made a solemn vow that I could not keep... I am from this world. Even with all its failures and suffering it is still worthy of my best efforts... and wishing it was otherwise does not make it so." Eiij'lam told the king.
K. Farrell St. Germain
#40. I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#41. In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca
#42. Lay a golden egg.
After you built a nest,
You wait for a leg.
And you land next.
Now you hope and pray.
Expect for the best.
Go on with no delay.
Get it right at last.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#43. When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.
Leslie Grossman
#44. It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#46. Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come.
Kemi Sogunle
#47. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me ... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney Company
#49. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#50. 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
#51. The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
Ben Bernanke
#52. Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.
Kerri Walsh
#53. The best antidote to stress is resilience ... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.
Lauren Mackler
#54. You don't want people who have never had to deal with adversity - you want people who have been able to deal successfully with adversity. That's what adds to society. Those are going to be the hardest-working, best people.
Linda Ronstadt
#55. What is a good man if not one who does not believe in himself to the exclusion of others? ... He was asked to bear what cannot be borne--what should not be borne. I hope never to be so tested, for I have it on the best authority that I will not bear it.
Norman Lock
#56. The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
Walt Disney
#57. Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.
Napoleon Hill
#58. Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
#59. An open mind, is the best weapon, in the fight between light and darkness
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#60. It's a characteristic of human nature that the best qualities, called up quickly in a crisis, are very often the hardest to find in a prosperous calm. The contours of all our virtues are shaped by adversity.
Gregory David Roberts
#63. Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
Thomas A Kempis
#64. The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.
Jason Versey
#65. Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
Thisuri Wanniarachchi
#66. I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
Andrea Arnold
#67. Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis Bacon
#69. 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
#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
