quotations about adversity
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
EDMUND BURKE
attributed, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove, what a little will only accustom you to endure.
FULKE GREVILLE
Maxims, Characters and Reflections
The day of adversity is one from which none are absolutely secure. Some, indeed, bring adversity on themselves by their own folly; but the wise as well as the foolish are liable to it, and all should be prepared for it.
R. B.
United Presbyterian Magazine, Dec. 1, 1879
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
CARL JUNG
The Transcendent Function
Emerging from your adversity a newly changed and mentally ready individual and changed person can help you elevate yourself to new level when times are hard and life is dark.
MARIA BALDWIN
"Learn how to overcome your struggles", Daily Eastern News, February 11, 2016
Keen adversity is the best crucible in which to try a man's integrity.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Missing a jump shot and losing a basketball game doesn't even qualify as adversity. Adversity is watching your mother have to decide between buying you a pair of shoes or paying the overdue electric bill. Adversity is losing a loved one to gun violence, growing up without a father, or having siblings suffer from lead poisoning from their own water supply. Adversity is trying to raise your 15-year-old brother while playing college basketball and going to class.
MATT ZIMMER
"SDSU's Deondre Parks: Hero at Home", Argus Leader, March 3, 2016
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience.
BISHOP HORNE
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.
ANONYMOUS
Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages
In any adversity that happens to us in the world, we ought to consider that misery and affliction are not less natural than snow and hail, storm and tempest: And it were as reasonable to hope for a year without winter, as for a life without trouble.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
For some adversity comes into our life like an ever-changing kaleidoscope and changes the pattern we laid out for our life. Some others are born into adversity and must learn survival tactics. When adversity is conquered, the skills learned, in the doing, are the golden treasures of life's experience.
BARBARA B. BERGSTROM
Don't Forget Your Keys
Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.
DANIEL DEFOE
Robinson Crusoe
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely ways, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
The Candle of the Lord and Other Sermons
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
attributed, A Mind and Heart for Wellness
Adversity is part of life--by avoiding adversity, one avoids life.
PAUL GORDON STOLTZ
Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities
Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
From sports I have learned that adversity is normal, but it is through those hardships that normal people are prepared to accomplish great things.
JOHN GAINES
"John Gaines continues to PUSH and inspire", USA Today, February 11, 2016
It is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, Pearls: Philosophies for Living a Robust and Fulfilling Life
Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The Saint and His Saviour