Top 34 Greatest Adversity Quotes
#1. Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.
Daniel Defoe
#2. A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.
Daisaku Ikeda
#3. It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
Dalai Lama XIV
#4. Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
Steven Pressfield
#5. No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Victor Hugo
#7. My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.
Marion G. Romney
#8. Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.
James Cook
#9. Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton
#10. One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
Ben Okri
#11. There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.
Chris Crutcher
#13. The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.
Nigel Hamilton
#14. Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
Napoleon Hill
#15. Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
Thomas S. Monson
#16. A principled person's greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#17. Your greatest successes come from overcoming your greatest losses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel
#19. For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.
Lori Wilde
#20. I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.
Samuel Rutherford
#21. Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.
Shannon L. Alder
#23. You must laugh in the face of adversity. In the end, humor is the greatest weapon against the pain. The
K. Hollan Van Zandt
#24. 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
#25. The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
Oliver Goldsmith
#26. Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. Overcoming adversity puts you among the bravest, overcoming pain puts you among the strongest; overcoming opponents puts you among the mightiest, but overcoming yourself puts you among the greatest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#28. Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
J.G. Holland
#29. I have learned ... adversity can be one of the greatest gifts of all.
Robert Kiyosaki
#30. All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#32. Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.
Aron Ralston
#33. 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
