Quotes on Adversity

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.