Adversity Quotes

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

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.

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

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

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.

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

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

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

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