Adversity Quotes
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The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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There is no education like adversity.
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There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
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They seemed like old companions in adversity.
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