Quotes on Adversity

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.

You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.

The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

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

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.