Adversity quotes

1. A wounded deer leaps the highest. -Emily Dickinson

2. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. -English Proverb

3. A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. -Saadi

4. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. -John Neal

5. Adversity is a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it. -Anonymous

6. Dust is protective coating for fine furniture. -Mario Burata

7. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. -Mark Twain

8. Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to  them? -Rose F. Kennedy

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

10. Adversity is the first path to truth. -Lord Byron

11. Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer. -Sir Walter Scott

12. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity hides it. -Horace

13. Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. -Les Brown

14. Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. -Og Mandino

15. Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. -Henry Ward Beecher

16. You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. -Walt Schmidt

17. You have endured worse things; God will grant an end to these. -Virgil

18. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. -Mary Kay Ash

19. When walking through the ‘valley of shadows’, remember, a shadow is cast by a light. -H.K Barclay

20. You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. -Maxwell Maltz

21. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. -Friedrich Nietzsche

22. What is to give light must endure the burning. -Viktor Frankl

23. When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars. -Lee Salk

24. When something like an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. -Rosalind Russell

25. We need tough days to drive us to our knees. -Anonymous

26. We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. -Henry Ward Beecher

27. We must free ourselves from the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. -Hanmer Parsons Grant

28. Tough times never last, but tough people do. -Robert Schuller

29. Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. -Plutarch

30. Things were bad but now they are OK. -Harold Seymour

31. Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. -Soren Kierkegaard

32. Trouble shared is troubled halved. -Dorothy Sayers

33. There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not crown bearers on earth. -Anonymous

34. There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. -Og Mandino

35. The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. -Richard Nixon

36. The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. -Seneca

37. Stumbling is not falling. -Portuguese Proverb

38. Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. -Zig Ziglar

39. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity. -Lou Holtz

40. The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. -Goethe

41. The difference between the stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them. -Anonymous

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

43. The proof of gold is fire. -Benjamin Franklin

44. The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. -Anonymous

45. The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you. -Will Rogers

46. The reward of suffering is experience. -Aeschylus

47. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. -Horace

48. Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together. -Anonymous

49. Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. -Pliny The Elder

50. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. -Gilbert Chesterton