Adversity Quotes

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Every team faces some kind of adversity. You have to adjust and move on.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Dealing with adversity is something you just can't coach or teach. You just have to deal with it. In a way, it's been nice because we're all learning and growing. Once we got past the stage where we were making errors, we started to understand what we are capable of doing. There's always a chance.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

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.

In the face of adversity, you find out if you're a fighter or a quitter. It's all about getting up after you've been knocked down.

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

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

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.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Adversity is a stimulus.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

There is no education like adversity.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.