Quotes About Adversity

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.

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

Funny,’ Will said, as they picked their way through. ‘Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.’ ‘They are English,’ Merriman said. ‘Quite right,’ said Will’s father. ‘Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We’re an odd lot….

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

If you can't live through adversity, you'll never be good at what you do. You have to live through the unfair things, and you have to develop the hide to not let it bother you and keep your eyes focused on what you have to do.

With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes. Thy friends do stand by thee...' -Jesus the Christ

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

Just be free, and at least you will go through adversity with a stronger mind, and therefore, you'll be less affected, and pain will affect you less.

In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

With every adversity and trial comes the opportunity to grow stronger and learn from your circumstance.

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.

A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.

If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium. I wish I was cooler under pressure, like a robot.

I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.

I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.

I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

What a testing of character adversity is.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

The only thing I would advise young actors to do is prepare for the amount of adversity that you're going to come in contact with by choosing to be an actor because before you actually "made it" or get the skills, people are all not going to take you seriously, and many people will try to discourage you from it. Don't take any of their advice. Do it, and do it and do it. Remember the compliments. Forget the insults.