Adversity Quotes
Quotes about Adversity
38 quotes
- “A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become po...” — Mildred W. Struven
- “A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its ...” — Panchatantra
- “Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bittern...” — Edward Howard Griggs
- “I think hearts are very much like glasses - if they do not break with the first ring they usually last a considerable ti...” — L. E. Landon
- “We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with ...” — Wilson Benton
- “I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battle...” — Harmon Killebrew
- “If you see adversity arriving at your game field, time to put on your pads and let see how well you can tackle adversity...” — Kevin Abromitis
- “I had long believed adversity was the greatest teacher, but I learnt that nothing teaches you more about life than death...” — Alex Staniforth
- “Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.” — Carolyn Wells
- “Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.” — Roman Polanski
- “Screw it. Bring on that sorry dragon!Comes down to it, I'll bet Hrundig knows a recipe for cooking the mangy beasts.” — Eric Flint
- “Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.” — Catharine Marshall
- “Be grateful for the twists in the road. They teach us humility and grace. And any dancer in this life requires both” — Margaret Moss Painter
- “I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.” — Dallin H. Oaks
- “For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.” — Beah Richards
- “Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.” — Alexandra David-neel
- “Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.” — Rikki Rogers
- “They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.” — Edward Noyes Westcott
- “There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.” — Robert Alden
- “When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong--or absolutely right.” — Albert Guinon
- “A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.” — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- “The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.” — Molly Haskell
- “Never complain about your troubles they are responsible for more than half of your income.” — Robert R. Updegraff
- “It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.” — Frederick Phillips
- “Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.” — Vahan Zanoyan
- “Our trials are tests our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.” — Jerome P. Fleishman
- “Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways” — Angela Merici
- “Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.” — Septima Poinsette Clark
- “Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.” — Josiah G. Holland
- “Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.” — Fridiric Chopin
- “Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.” — Jeffrey Lewis
- “I have brightness in my soul which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!” — Jenny Lind
- “Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.” — John Patrick
- “Life is a battle, and you either enter it armed, or surrender immediately.” — The Tv Show "gilmore Girls
- “Character and Professionalism can only be seen when faced with adversity…” — Thaddeus L Edwards
- “To live is to suffer to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” — Roberta Flack
- “You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.” — Christy Mathewson
- “Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.” — Herbert Gasser