Adversity Quotes

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
Violeta Parra

Adversity precedes growth.
Rosemarie Rossett

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Author Unknown

Adversities: to some they bring breakdowns, to others breaks in life.
M. K. Soni

Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron

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

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
Max Ehrmann, from Desiderata

Prosperity is a great teacher;
Adversity is a greater.
Hazlitt

Adversity is the foundation of virtue.
Proverb

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Samuel Smiles

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle

There is no education like adversity.
Disraeli

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
William A. Ward

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Robert Collier

The pine stays green in winter...wisdom in hardship.
Proverb

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

Adversity makes a man wise.
French Proverb

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet

The boy who is going to make a great man... must not make up his mind not merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
Og Mandino

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney

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.
Og Mandino

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself.
Elias A. Ford

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.
Author Unknown

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden

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

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
William Ellery Channing

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.
Edgar A Guest, from What Counts

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

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Soren Kierkegaard

Robert Collier said it best when he said, "All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck, who keeps right on going, is the man who is there when the good luck comes, and is ready to receive it."
Luck, Do You Have It?

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