Adversity Quotes

By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity another man's, I mean

Mark Twain

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Samuel Johnson

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

William Shakespeare

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Charles M. Schwab

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Edward Noyes Westcott

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Phil Weltman

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Laurens Van du Post

Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;And this our life, exempt from public haunt,Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.

William Shakespeare

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Aristotle

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

James Rogers

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Theodore Roethke

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Martin E. P. Seligman

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Doug Horton

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Bryan Adams

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity

Ben Jonson

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Simone Weil