Adversity Quotes

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Vance Havner

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Henry David Thoreau

Every burden is a blessing.

Robert H. Schuller

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Sa'di

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

James Buckham

My angel, cries Booth, it delights me to hear you talk thus, and for a reason you little guess; for I am assured that one who can so heroically endure adversity, will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former, is not likely to be transported with the latter.

Henry Fielding, Amelia

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Arnold Bennett

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Henry Fielding

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Lou Holtz

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Kahlil Gibran

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Johann von Goethe

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Don

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Eric Allenbaugh

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Hanmer Parsons Grant