Adversity Quotations

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity
*Seneca

Adversity is not undesirable. Because, it is only when you are down and out in life that you can realize its true value....
*Papa Ramdas

If you yield to adversity, the chances are it will master you, but if you recognize in yourself the power of mastery over conditions, then adversity will yield to you....
*Ralph W, Trine

Adversity may call out dormant powers that have never before been suspected..
*Alice H. Rice

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks....
*Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is never really anything to be discouraged about, because difficulties are opportunities for inner growth, and the greater the difficulty, the greater the opportunity for growth...
*Peace Pilgrim

Difficulty .... is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion....
*William C. Bryant

God is a light to our feet. Let us not be troubled by man, for what is man if not a fleeting shadow, a windblown leaf, a fading flower, and vanishing smoke...
*Olympia Morata

Tragedy is like a strong acid-it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth...
*D. H. Lawrence

The positive and victorious attitude keeps adversity away, while a negative attitude attracts it...
*Henry T Hamblin

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it...
* Albert Camus

Men often bear little grievances withless courage than they do large misfortunes...
* Aesop

One of the secrets of life is making stepping stones out of stumbling blocks..
* Jack Penn

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he who loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss..
* Roger L'Estrange

In many cases stress is caused not by the event itself but rather our response to the event....
* Robert EliotIf

We have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how...
* Friedrich Nietzsche

Times of confusion and general adver-sity have always been a source of great good. Real calamity was ordained asman's perfect mirror, that he may see himself and see how helpless he is without the support of a Supreme Being....
* Fred Van Amburgh

A man doesn't realize how much he can: stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are .... God is dwelling in your life...
* Martin Neimoller

Meet adversity by turning defeat into victory..
* John A. Schindler

You cannot direct which way the winds of adversity will blow, but you can adjust your sails
* Shantidasa

Adversity is the first path of truth....
*George Byron

"Q: We sometimes wonder whether we can make it.

A: You can make it. The ray of light can break through
years of hard resistance, through thousands of mistakes.
This is not simply an encouragement. It is fact."
VH.