Adversity Quotes
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I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.
Jennifer Egan -
He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
Plato
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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.
Arthur Golden -
Adversity is a stimulus.
James Broughton -
All season, we haven't given in to the adversity. (Monday), at times, we gave in to all of the negatives.
Aaron Kampman -
We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency at times to make situations worse than they have to be because of my catastrophic interpretation.
Marianne Williamson -
Charles Haddon Spurgeon said that the old covenant was a convenant of prosperity, and the new convenient is a covenant of adversity, whereby we're being weaned from the present world and made meek for the world to come.
Hank Hanegraaff -
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.
Bill Vaughan -
In the face of adversity, you find out if you're a fighter or a quitter. It's all about getting up after you've been knocked down.
Archie Griffin -
Adversity creates comedy.
Darren Star -
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
Alec-Tweedie -
Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.
Marvin J. Ashton -
We cannot conduct reforms that affect the people adversely. If therapy drags out for decades and no gleam of light is seen, it is certainly not in the interests of the country, not in the interests of the people.
Yevgeny Primakov
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God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.
Anne Askew -
Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.
Daisaku Ikeda -
adversity is so rough a teacher!
Sara Willis -
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare -
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Francis Bacon -
In adversity man is saved by hope.
Bill Vaughan
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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless
Saint Augustine -
It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.
Euripides -
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus -
Be grateful for your challenges, setbacks, adversity and disappointments. Be grateful for your opportunity to overcome every single one, because doing so contributes to your growth & your ability to help others overcome theirs.
Hal Elrod