Adversity Quotes

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Merle Shain

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Thomas Kempis

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Thomas Kempis

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Robert C. Gallagher

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Walt Schmidt

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

Ingmar Bergman

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Italian Proverb

When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?"

Henry Rollins

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.

Proverb

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech de

I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolution of the heavens, except once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes. I came to the chief of Kfah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience, and exclaimed,

Sadi Gulistan

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Sextus Propertius