Adversity Quotes

1383 Adversity quotes by 792 unique authors

We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential to prepare them for it. Feeling sorry for children is one of the most… — Rudolf Dreikurs
Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity… — Paul Tsongas
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown. — Soren Kierkegaard
People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It… — Carl Jung
Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth… — Walter Scott
Misfortune is the test of a person's merit. — Seneca the Younger
They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation. — Arnold J. Toynbee
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I… — Henry Moore
It is true that people are sometimes hit by adversities beyond their control. But those so affected are better helped when they are awakened to… — Nathaniel Branden
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother,… — William Hudson O'Hanlon
We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If things are tough, remember that every flower had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. So do not grieve about… — Barbara Johnson
If it is true that strength is the child of effort and pain, then most of us will have the opportunity to learn strength. .… — Joseph M. Marshall III
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the… — Ruth Gordon
We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not… — Orison Swett Marden
We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments. — Joseph Addison
The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the… — Louis L'Amour
If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him… — John Templeton
Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset… — Earl Nightingale
It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your… — James Agee
God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim. — Catherine Marshall
To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than… — Nathaniel Branden
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of… — Boethius

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