Adversity Quotes
-
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
-
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
-
Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.
-
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
-
Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
-
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
-
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
-
Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.
-
It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.
-
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
-
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.
-
If you choose to go hard after God, you’ll experience more adversity than you would encounter if you played it safe, but you’ll delight in more power and love than you ever dreamed possible.
-
Adversity creates comedy.
-
In adversity man is saved by hope.
-
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
-
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
-
Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.
-
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
-
It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
-
Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.
-
Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.
-
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
-
Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.
-
adversity is so rough a teacher!