Adversity Quotes

126 quotations about Adversity
Stumbling is not falling.
Portuguese Proverb · Adversity
Any port in a storm.
Scottish Proverb · Adversity
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul Richter · Adversity
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Theodore Roethke · Adversity
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
James Rogers · Adversity
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Rosalind Russell · Adversity
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Saadi · Adversity
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Lee Salk · Adversity
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers · Adversity
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Walt Schmidt · Adversity
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
Arthur Schopenhauer · Adversity
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller · Adversity
Every burden is a blessing.
Robert H. Schuller · Adversity
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Charles M. Schwab · Adversity
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Sir Walter Scott · Adversity
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Seneca · Adversity
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca · Adversity
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca · Adversity
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Seneca · Adversity
Things were bad but now they are OK.
Harold J. Seymour · Adversity
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Merle Shain · Adversity
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
William Shakespeare · Adversity
If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.
George Sheehan · Adversity
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Sirach · Adversity
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Sting · Adversity

Authors on Adversity

Aeschylus Aesop Louisa May Alcott Mary Kay Ash St. Augustine Avon Francis Bacon H.K. Barclay Henry Ward Beecher Arnold Bennet Taylor Benson Bible Les Brown Mario Burata Lord Byron Emilie Cady Mary Case M Kathleen Casey Gilbert K. Chesterton Chinese Proverb