ADVERSITY QUOTES II

quotations about adversity

Adversity quote

The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Talent Is Never Enough

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

HORACE

attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical

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Gratitude in adversity is the most beautiful and precious crown of the soul.

LUDOVICUS BLOSIUS

Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois


Adversity is never the end point; for those faced with a positive attitude, it's always the beginning.

J. BARRY GRISWELL & BOB JENNINGS

The Adversity Paradox


There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

WASHINGTON IRVING

The Sketch Book

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The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.

JOSEPH ADDISON

Cato

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The highest form of success ... comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The Strenuous Life

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Adversity introduces a man to himself.

H. L. MENCKEN

attributed, A New Dictionary of Quotations

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To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

FRANK HERBERT

The Dosadi Experiment

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Adversity is a part of life, and if you don't want to deal with it now you never will.

MARK FOX

"Win won't save Georgia's season but Mark Fox likely safe", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 27, 2016


That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Twilight of the Idols

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As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

EPICTETUS

Fragments

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Nothing is more patent than that the discipline of adversity is by far the most gracious and elevating influence affecting human character.

ANONYMOUS

New York Observer, Dec. 8, 1898

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How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.

PAMELA ANDERSON

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Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

GAO XINGJIAN

Nocturnal Wanderer

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When you don't have enough adversity, you have to create it for yourself, lest you weaken, wither, and wilt away to something less than who you really are.

ANTHONY IANNARINO

"How to Create Your Own Adversity", The Sales Blog, October 16, 2016


For my family, like everyone else, adversity is difficult, but has shaped us into stronger and better people and brought us closer to God.... God uses the tools he needs to "cut us down" and make us grow in the way only He knows we can. For, we are His and He knows what we are meant to become.

HEATHER HEMINGWAY

"I Am the Gardener: What Trials Teach Us", Chron, February 7, 2016


Adversity is breakfast for champions.

STEVE KOMPHELA

"Adversity is breakfast for champions", SuperSport, August 6, 2015


Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

CHINESE PROVERB