Adversity Quotes

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

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 the next time.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Adversity is a stimulus.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.

I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

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

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

In so many things, growth comes from adversity.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.