Quotes About Adversity

#1. 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

#2. When troubles come, try to understand the relevance of your sufferings. Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection." "Why

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#3. Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

Michael R. French

#4. Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

John F. Kennedy

#5. Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

Criss Jami

#6. The features of character are carved out of adversity.

Rick Barnett

#7. Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

John C. Maxwell

#8. 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

#9. Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a hand behind us that sets to right all imbalances. Why do you think the saints seldom had the temporal power that we mistakenly identify with the fruits of justice? Do you think they needed it, or cared?

Mark Helprin

#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. It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

Isocrates

#12. Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.

Daniel Defoe

#13. We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting. We need to pray in times of security, lest we become self-sufficient.

Billy Graham

#14. In adversity man is saved by hope.

Bill Vaughan

#15. Trials are a part of life, but there is value in sometimes experiencing adversity which will test (and so strengthen) our faith and also build an understanding of God and ourselves.

Eric Ives

#16. A warrior culture trains for adversity. Luxury and ease are the goals advertised to the civilian world.

Steven Pressfield

#17. I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

Les Brown

#18. The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

Horace Greeley

#19. Let me not fear adversity.

Debasish Mridha

#20. How do we handle adversity? Adversity is going to be with us in everything that we do, almost in every facet of our lives-in our personal associations, in the mission field, in our chosen professions, in our families.

LaVell Edwards

#21. No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself

Seneca.

#22. In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

Christopher Reeve

#23. Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.

Hal Elrod

#24. Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#25. You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity

Steve Nash

#26. Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#27. In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

Charles Spurgeon

#28. 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

#29. It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

Herbert Hoover

#30. 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

#31. You said pain is necessary, because in order for a person to succeed, they must first learn to conquer adversity.

Colleen Hoover

#32. There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

Malcolm X

#33. You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will.

Rachel E. Carter

#34. Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity ... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Grant Achatz

#35. Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

Wayde Goodall

#36. 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

#37. Strictly speaking, there is no absolute reality, and that is why two individuals facing the same situation may end up seeing adversity or opportunity depending on their mental model.

Mushtak Al-Atabi

#38. In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

Boethius

#39. You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventures.-You can creste prosperity out of adversity

Ikechukwu Joseph

#40. In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.

Francis Quarles

#41. Who likes to encounter bad weather? But what if you could take advantage of adverse forces that you run into? What if you could turn adversity into opportunity or leverage it positively?

Karla Robertson

#42. One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.

Reggie White

#43. Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

Mason Cooley

#44. Any true champion can bounce back. That's what being a champion is: being able to deal with adversity and being able to bounce back.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#45. When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.

Joel Osteen

#46. Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

Mary Astor

#47. And the vision that I had when I decided to come here is all coming true. Through adversity, through everything we've been through, we've been able to persevere ... It's an unbelievable feeling.

Micky Arison

#48. 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

#49. Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him.

Jerry Bridges

#50. If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

William J. Clinton

#51. I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity.

Jim Butcher

#52. Adversity in life teaches you.

Tony Gonzalez

#53. The goal of [Into My Mind] is to uplift and inspire. We've all been through some sort of adversity in our lives, by sharing mines, I hope to help others get through theirs. I've been through it and came out standing. I want the world to know that they can come out standing too.

Jana Chantel

#54. Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with

Thomas Carlyle

#55. In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases. - SENECA

Ryan Holiday

#56. I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

Sandra Bullock

#57. PRO24.10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

Anonymous

#58. Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'!

W.O. Wainwright

#59. In times of adversity, you will know those who truly love you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#60. Everybody can have a bad game, and we did. These guys have all proven that they can handle adversity. We're in the midst of a little adversity.

Wayne Graham

#61. In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Livy

#62. Flom had the same experience ... He didn't triumph over adversity. Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.

Malcolm Gladwell

#63. If our team doesn't face enough adversity early on in a season, I create it. Nothing builds a team like adversity.

Mike Tomlin

#64. In the face of adversity you have three choices ... You can let it DEFINE you, let it DESTROY you or let it STRENGTHEN YOU!

Tanya Masse

#65. 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

#66. We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.

Alistair Begg

#67. Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

Lucretius

#68. Adversity helps to develop a depth of character that comes in no other way. Our loving Heavenly Father has set us in a world filled with challenges and trials so that we, through opposition, can learn wisdom, become stronger, and experience joy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#69. Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.

Charles Schwab

#70. Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It's the lack of limits they can't handle. That's when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

Bill Bonner

#71. Strength and character are built through adversity.

Stephan Labossiere

#72. Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent,
Adversity then breeds the discontent.

Robert Herrick

#73. Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#74. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

#75. A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

King Solomon

#76. The utility of adversity is to draw inspiration, wisdom and strength from it.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#77. One enjoys friendship most when times are good, when the sun shines and the world is kind. But it is the sharing of adversity that knits men together.

John Christopher

#78. I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#79. Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.

Benjamin Graham

#80. Times of adversity, rekindle my spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#81. Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

#82. From personal adversity comes great art

Tan Redding

#83. Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity.

Robin Sharma

#84. Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable.

John Feldmann

#85. 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

#86. Don't let negativity ruin your day.
Don't let inefficiency ruin your week.
Don't let adversity ruin your month.
Don't let animosity ruin your year.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#87. Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

Martin O'Malley

#88. If you have your mind in the right direction, and your heart is full of the right kind of stuff, you'll succeed and you'll triumph over adversity, over really anything.

Milo Ventimiglia

#89. You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

Og Mandino

#90. Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity.

Carlos Wallace

#91. True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty.

Fielding H. Yost

#92. Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.

Troy Polamalu

#93. Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

Ruth Asawa

#94. The presence of God is always with you.
Be strong and courageous. Fear not! God will grant you the strength to overcome any adversity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#95. Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

Ovid

#96. If necessity is the Mother of Invention, than adversity must surely be the Father of Re-invention.

Johnny Flora

#97. I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don't really embrace it. I just say it's a lucky day.

Rick Pitino

#98. Prosperity has no power over adversity.

Publilius Syrus

#99. He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.

Saadi

#100. A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.

Noah Kagan