Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Adversity.
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
Anandabai Joshee
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
William Shakespeare
Things were bad but now they are OK.
Harold J. Seymore
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10
Bible
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Qur'an
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul Richter
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
Mary Caroline Richards
Only entropy comes easy.
Lewis Mumford
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France
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.
Anne Dudley Bradstreet
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
James Russell Lowell
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Danny DeVito
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
Bert Whitney
In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Dustin Hoffman
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G. K. Chesterton
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
