Adversity Quotes - Page 3

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

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

The most valuable gift I ever received was ... the gift of insecurity ... my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the road where we had to earn our bread.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.

This struggle of people against their conditions this is where you find the meaning in life.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.

In all things preserve integrity and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments and give thee an humble confidence before God when the ingratitude of man or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

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.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

Abraham Lincoln

Our trials are tests our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.

Jerome P. Fleishman

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Charles Caleb Colton

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

Anonymous

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

Mildred W. Struven

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

Kossuth

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Unless a man has been kicked around a little you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.

William Feather

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham smoky to the taste thick-skinned and tender inside.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship this pressure produces diamonds.

Tatyana Tolstaya

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Lou Holtz

It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

Josiah G. Holland

My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

Jacqueline Cochran

There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Thomas A. Edison

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

Thomas W. Higginson

No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.

Thomas F. Woodlock

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great.

Francis Quarles

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

Robert R. Updegraff

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

Frederick Phillips

Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

I think hearts are very much like glasses - if they do not break with the first ring they usually last a considerable time.

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 next one.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Alexandra David-Neel

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

Emily Dickinson

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word "travel" is derived from "travail " denoting the pains of childbirth.

Jessica Mitford

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

Teresa of Avila.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

William J. H. Boetcker

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