Adversity Quotes
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You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.
Draymond Green
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Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.
William Shakespeare
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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
William Arthur Ward
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Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.
Brandon Webb
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All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.
Rufus Choate
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When we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the fulfillment of righteous responsibilities, we should remember that when we are involved in the work of the Lord, the obstacles before us are never as great as the power behind us. We should reach out and climb. Handholds will only be found by hands that are outstretched. Footholds are only for feet that are on the move.
Dallin H. Oaks
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With every adversity and trial comes the opportunity to grow stronger and learn from your circumstance.
O. J. Brigance
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Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.
Robert Falcon Scott
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I can deal with adversity.
Mike Tyson
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Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.
Willie Jolley
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Sweet are the uses of adversity
William Shakespeare
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
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It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.
Wes Walz
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Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.
Brian Tracy
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No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.
Brigham Young
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I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.
Jennifer Egan
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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.
Dalai Lama
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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
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Adversity creates comedy.
Darren Star
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To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
Seneca the Younger
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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 shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
Publilius Syrus