Adversity Quotes

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.

It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.

No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine itTo lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st.Suppose the singing birds musicians,The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed,The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no moreThan a delight measure or a dance;For gnarling sorrow hath less power to biteThe man that mocks at it and sets it light.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.

When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

Out of resistance comes strength.

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.