Memorable Quotes About Adversity

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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
Molière
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
African Proverb
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordan
"Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."
Francis Bacon
"The true test of a person's character is how they stand during test of adversity."
Unknown
"The only way through the valley is to trudge through the rocky terrain."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb
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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
Joshua J. Marine
"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."
Seneca
"You aren't your past, you are the person who is learning from it and blazing a new trail."
Sue Fitzmaurice
"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't."
Rikki Rogers
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
Mark Twain
"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
"Adversity makes men, prosperity makes monsters."
Victor Hugo
"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."
Golda Meir
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it."
William Hazlitt
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
Elvis Presley
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
Walt Disney
"We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way."
Philip Yancey
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."
Harry Golden
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"Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy."
William Shakespeare
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius
"Adversity causes some people to break and others to break records."
William Arthur Ward
"Adversity does teach who your real friends are."
Lois McMaster Bujold
"In the face of adversity, we have a choice. We can be bitter, or we can be better."
Zig Ziglar
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor humanity perfected without trials."
Chinese Proverb
"The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is."
Charles M. Schwab
"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."
Napoleon Hill
"It is not enough to have great qualities; we should also have the management of them."
La Rochefoucauld
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."
Horace
"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn."
Helen Keller
"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
William Shakespeare
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater."
William Hazlitt
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"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
Sun Tzu
"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
Jean de La Bruyere
"The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose."
Ernie Banks
"Don't let the challenges that are thrown your way become your barriers. Instead, let them be the reasons for your future successes."
Anonymous
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
Seneca
"I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it."
Maya Angelou
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."
Napoleon Hill
"In the face of adversity, be not afraid of opposition."
Chinese Proverb
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
Duke Ellington
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
Carl Jung
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
William Ellery Channing
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Stars can't shine without darkness."
D.H. Sidebottom
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."
Epicurus
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."
Thomas Carlyle
"Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great."
Rose Kennedy
"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."
Henry Fielding
"Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."
John Wooden
"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."
William Arthur Ward
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
Seneca
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
Bernice Johnson Reagon
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
Albert Einstein
"Adversity is the first path to truth."
George Gordon Byron
"Adversity is the true school of the mind."
Spartacus
"It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars."
Richard Paul Evans
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
Booker T. Washington
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
Chinese Proverb
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
Horace
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
Henry Ford
"Adversity is the mother of progress."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased."
Joel Osteen
"In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him."
Bible - Ecclesiastes 7:14
"I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work, and my God."
Helen Keller
"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
"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
Ben Jonson
"Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
Edmund Burke
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