Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Adversity.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Sting
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Jerry Chin
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Kitty O'neill Collins
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
C.S. Lewis
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Rosalind Russell
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us
Samuel Johnson
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
Ambrose Bierce
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbow'd.Beyond this place of wrath and tearsLies but the horror of the shade,And yet the menace of the yearsFinds, and shall find me, unafraid.It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley, Invictus,
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
M Kathleen Casey
No pressure, no diamonds.
Mary Case
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Edward W. Howe
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Norman Vincent Peale
