Best Adversity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.”

Writing I Can Book Stories Fighting Situation Cases Acceptance Reader Hero Adversity Mail Surviving Can't Change Affirming Snail Personal Stories True Hero Fighting Through

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.”

President Overcoming Adversity Odds Great Presidents

Author:Ron Fournier

“In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.”

Country Jobs Moving Choices Progress Creation Adversity Moving Forward Job Creation Times Of Adversity Maryland Forward Progress

Author:Martin O'Malley

“I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.”

People Ifs Knows Want I Can Technology Know How Media Built Adversity Meaningful Software Disruption Underdog

Author:Aaron Levie

“A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.”

Mind Heart Art Bears Ought Adversity Cowardice Calamity Grandeur Fleeing

Book:The works

Source: The works

“Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.”

Children Has Beens Turns Courses Father Opportunity Losing Died Adversity Theme Only Child Father Died My Father Died

Author:Thomas G. Stemberg

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

Life Inspirational Believe Dream Motivational Success Belief Leadership Acting Plans Self Esteem Positive Greatness Achievement Adversity Accomplish Great Things Accomplishment Your Dreams Accomplished Success In Life Graduation Our Dreams Key To Success Road To Success Insperational Hopes And Dreams I Had A Dream Dreams And Reality Determination And Success Just A Dream Dreams You Have Determination Motivational Small Dreams Dream World Keep Believing Goal Achievement Inspirational Goal Live Your Dreams Following Dreams Believe In Your Dreams Inspirational Graduation Inspirational Determination Life Dream Following My Dreams Power Of Attraction Inspirational Dream Achievement And Success Hopes Dreams Graduation Day Inspirational Achievement Great Graduation College Graduation Great Accomplishment Motivational Achievement Life And Dreams Best Of Luck Convocation Dreaming And Doing Senior Graduation Dreaming And Success Beautiful Dreams Accomplishing Great Things Planning And Success Graduation Wishes

Author:Anatole France

“I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.”

Want Past Goal Steps Knowing Percent Adversity Setting Settings Setting Goals Small Steps

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.”

Knowing Adversity Manifestation Mistaken Adverse

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.”

“Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.”

People Wells Sometimes Christianity Adversity Medicine Shakes Bottles Missionary

Author:Vance Havner

“A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.”

Ifs Soul Use Faces Universe Growth Views Willing Happenings Optimism Encouragement Adversity Point Of View Optimistic Fabric Woven

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“Protect your vision. Prevail over adversity. Persevere in the midst of turmoil. Passionately act upon your convictions. Purposely walk into the day.”

Walks Vision Protect Adversity Conviction Midst Persevere Turmoil Happy Day

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”

Ifs Men Existence Understood Adversity Bullying Beauty Of Life

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.”

Writing Reason Able Purpose Fear Darkness Reflection Praise Adversity Constant Familiar Sunshine Frightening Breakdown Pessimistic

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”

Men Suffering Courage Fire Gold Tests Bravery Adversity Brave Ancient Hardship Wise Man Once Said Brave Man Predicaments

Author:Seneca the Younger

“A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.”

People Thinking Long Hard Helping Seems Wanted Past Deals Careers Adversity Rosy Long Careers

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.”

Order Powerful Capable Pressure Adversity Most Powerful Accountability Threshold Head Start Slacking

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer...that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.”

Writing Character Inspiration Able Order Simple Offers Succeed Singing Appreciate Overcoming Adversity Obstacles Overcoming Adversity Simple Things Order To Succeed Obstacle In Life

Author:Elliott Yamin

“When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.”

Adversity Greed Casts Unexpected Fixation Cast Away

Author:Momofuku Ando

“When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.”

Thinking Feels Trying Mind May Ideas States Seems Form Evil Force Effects Masters Adversity Developing Bad Ideas Undesirable

Book:Your Forces and How to Use Them

Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

Success Education Teaching Adversity Prosperity Educational Refuge Ornaments Great Education Ancient Greek Great Educational Adversity And Character Importance Of Education Related To Education Greek Art

Book:The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

“The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.”

Ifs Kind Poor Rich Trouble Adversity Cures Troublesome

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.”

Able Artist Function Adversity Notion Nine Atmosphere Indifference Nonsense Misunderstanding Hostility

Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.”

Giving Heart Doe Soul Desire Nations Adversity Oppressors Hearts Desire

Author:William Ralph Inge

“Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.”

Trying Trouble Adversity Endure Various Temptation Testing

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

Source: Eudemian Ethics

“Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.”

Work Half Trouble Responsible Adversity Complaining Income

Author:Robert Updegraff

“We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.”

Failing Effects Failure Blessing Adversity Flames Refining Purifying

Author:A. Theodore Tuttle

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”

Source: Sane Society Ils 252

“Be grateful for your challenges, setbacks, adversity and disappointments. Be grateful for your opportunity to overcome every single one, because doing so contributes to your growth & your ability to help others overcome theirs.”

Helping Opportunity Growth Challenges Ability Gratitude Overcoming Adversity Grateful Disappointment Helping Others Be Grateful Setback

Author:Hal Elrod

“Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.”

Firsts Opportunity Challenges Gratitude Overcoming Adversity Extraordinary

Author:Hal Elrod

“Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.”

Men Lasts He Man Adversity

Author:Seneca the Younger

“He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.”

Hero Adversity Prosperity True Hero

Book:Josh Billings' Wit and Humor

Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor

“In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.”

Firsts Ends Circumstances Please Adversity Ease Distress Bent

Author:Jonathan Swift

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”

Source: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.”

Ifs Should Soul Pain Left Cry Fool Quiet Weight Adversity Complaining Thee Grieving Mates Helpless Wretched Unkind Bruised Bereft

Book:The Complete Works

Source: The Complete Works

“He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.”

Men Felt Adversity Wretched

Author:William Shakespeare

“Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Littles Loses Wealth Poor Adversity Riches Substance

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

“We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.”

Way School Names Eternal Adversity Misery Prosperity Eternal Happiness

Author:William Penn

“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.”

Home Age Night Study Youth Comfort Adversity Prosperity Pleasant Refuge Retreat Consolation Accompany Accompany Us

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.”

Ifs Known Built Adversity Valor Hector

Author:Ovid

“In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.”

I Can Wealth Poverty Youth Adversity Prosperity

Author:Marc Chagall

“Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.”

Wells Looks May Littles Enough Dies Evil Church Numbers Worship Sick Adversity Trials Weather Chiefs Hypocrisy Subtle Inward Request Mischief Malady Good Weather

Author:Joseph Hall

“It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.”

Mind Wells Shows Bears Weak Adversity Prosperity Moderation Weak Minds

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.”

Giving Children Art Ends Wealth Virtue Our Children Adversity Your Children

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.”

Self Opportunity Discovery Adversity Self Discovery

Book:How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward

Source: How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward

“We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.”

Comfort Adversity Ease

Author:Livy

“Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.”

Source: Power of Self Esteem

“There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.”

Thinking Feels Moments Guy Born Week Adversity Crisis Starting Enthusiasm Plenty Pulse Respiratory

Author:James Taylor

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