Adversity Quotes

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.

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.

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

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

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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

Adversity is a stimulus.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

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

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.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

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

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

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.

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

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