Adversity Quotes

126 quotations about Adversity
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
The Talmud · Adversity
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain · Adversity
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
Source Unknown · Adversity
The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.
Source Unknown · Adversity
There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.
Source Unknown · Adversity
Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth
Source Unknown · Adversity
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.
Source Unknown · Adversity
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them
Source Unknown · Adversity
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Source Unknown · Adversity
Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.
Source Unknown · Adversity
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
Source Unknown · Adversity
We need tough days to drive us to our knees.
Source Unknown · Adversity
Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.
Source Unknown · Adversity
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
Source Unknown · Adversity
He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.
Source Unknown · Adversity
Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
Source Unknown · Adversity
If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.
Source Unknown · Adversity
If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Source Unknown · Adversity
In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.
Source Unknown · Adversity
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
Source Unknown · Adversity
Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them
Source Unknown · Adversity
You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
Virgil · Adversity
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Sam Walton · Adversity
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
William A. Ward · Adversity
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Earl Warren · 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