Adversity Quotes
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Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.
Behdad Sami
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He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
William Samuel Johnson
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In adversity man is saved by hope.
Bill Vaughan
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
Ben Okri
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Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.
Barbara Rose
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I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.
Erik Rutan
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Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.
Nicholas Ling
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
Seneca the Younger
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
Epictetus
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In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase.
Edward Bouverie Pusey
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The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.
Michael Arndt
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We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.
Bryan Murray
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
Mike Tyson
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
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adversity is so rough a teacher!
Sara Willis
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With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
Russell M. Nelson
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Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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
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If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.
Scott Wilson
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As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save a man on Sunday if during the week it is a complacent witness to the crucifixion of his soul.
D. Todd Christofferson
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Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.
Hal Elrod
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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.
Abbi Glines