Adversity Quotes
A collection of inspirational sayings and adversity quotes. When we face adversity and hardships it can be difficult to see the opportunities. We hope the words of wisdom in these adversity quotes and sayings inspire and motivate you when you are faced with the challenge of adversity in your life.Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which,
in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace
Life can make good of the hardships we meet.
Author Unknown, from Life's Tug Of War
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Maltbie D. Babcock
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
Jeffrey Gitomer
Just as silver linings can only be found on dark clouds, rays of hopes can be found, when one is facing hardships.
M. K. Soni
If we never go through any valleys how will we know when we've reached a mountain top? How will we know if the mountain is even any good if all our lives we stay up on the mountain and never experience any valleys? I know we'd all like to avoid those "valleys" at all costs, but the most growth for anything happens during adversity.
Kim Bloomer from Adversity, What Is It Good For?
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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Quotes about Adversity
Find more inspirational words of wisdom in these 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
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
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
Max Ehrmann, from Desiderata
Prosperity is a great teacher;
Adversity is a greater.
Hazlitt
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
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
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?