Adversity Quotes

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

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

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

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

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

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

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

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

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

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.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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

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

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.