Top 100 Quotes About Adversity
#1. Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#3. Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset.
Jared Brock
#5. In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
James Burgh
#6. 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
#7. Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
Peter McWilliams
#8. 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
#11. Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.
Winston Churchill
#13. Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch
#15. Greater dooms win greater destinies.
Heraclitus
#16. 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
#17. Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.
John Updike
#20. Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice
Maryam Jameelah
#21. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time.
E.B. White
#23. From adversity we can learn the value of patience.
Dalai Lama
#24. 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
#25. Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that
Kathrine Switzer
#26. Adversity awaken in us a strong-will to a daring life.
You become a stronger person with each adversity that you overcome.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#30. 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
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Carol Browner
#33. Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.
George Farquhar
#34. Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.
Charles R. Swindoll
#35. You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole
#36. 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
#37. 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
#39. 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
#40. We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
#41. Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
Louis L'Amour
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.
John F. Kennedy
#45. Having faced adversity and survived it, he's unlike others who haven't.
Peter Gray
#46. Even in the midst of life's adversity, struggle or strife; Love's enduring presence remains steadfast.
Eleesha
#47. We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. 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
#52. Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.
Scott Jurek
#53. Without adversity, we can never unleash our greatness.
Paul G. Stoltz
#55. A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.
Dick Devenzio
#56. You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.
Winston Churchill
#58. 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
#59. It is ... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.
Dalai Lama
#60. Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#61. Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.
Lennox Lewis
#62. 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
#63. Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
William Shakespeare
#64. Lastly, 'Hang tough!' Never, ever give up regardless of the adversity. If you are a leader, a fellow who other fellows look to, you have to keep going.
Dick Winters
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Thomas Carlyle
#68. Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.
William C. Bryant
#69. 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
#71. You can create opportunity out of importunity.You can create prosperity out of adversity.U can create something out of nothing
Ikechukwu Joseph
#72. You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.
Erik Weihenmayer
#73. For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
Zakk Wylde
#74. If you know the golden treasures of adversity, you will bravely embrace it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.
Lou Holtz
#76. Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
Edmund Burke
#77. 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
#78. Without darkness, we may never know how bright the stars shine. Without battles, we could not know what victory feels like. Without adversity, we may never appreciate the abundance in our lives. Be thankful, not only for the easy times, but for every experience that has made you who you are.
Julie-Anne
#80. We must endure Adversity Bravely and cheerfully.
Sri Chinmoy
#81. Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity. No?
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#82. 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
#83. Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.
Kevin Conroy
#84. You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#85. 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
#87. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
Ambrose Bierce
#89. It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#90. I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
Elizabeth Berg
#91. 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
#92. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.
Thomas Watson
#93. 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.
#94. Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.
T. B. Joshua
#95. I don't need another 'adversity builds character' speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where's your adversity?"
Darren raised a brow. "I'm looking at it.
Rachel E. Carter
#96. Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#98. God's grace grant us immeasurable ability to overcome adversity of any type.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#99. 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
#100. 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
