31+ Quotes about Adversity, Hardships and Challenges
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
HL Mencken
Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records.
William Arthur Ward
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
Edmund Burke
Adversity is the true school of the mind.
Katherine Lee Bates
Adversity is a way of life and God is there in that time of need.
Dabo Swinney
Adversity is a soul sister to success. And on the journey to greatness, our willingness to befriend these twin sisters, and know them as one, will have much to do with our greatness.
Noah Benshea
Prosperity is no just scale, adversity is the only balance to try friends.
Plutarch
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Edgar Allan Poe
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet
Adversity is opportunity.
Damion Lee
Adversity is real, and if you let it beat your, you stay in that slump.
Mercedes Lewis
Adversity is breakfast for champions.
Steve Komphela
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.
Frank Herbert
Prosperity often presages adversity.
Hosea Ballou
When you don't have enough adversity, you have to create it for yourself, lest you weaken, wither, and wilt away to something less than who you really are.
Anthony Iannarino
Adversity has made many a man great who, had he remained prosperous, would only have been rich.
Maurice Switzer
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Chinese Proverb
Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.
Epictetus
Sometimes, a bad meet and little adversity is just what a team needs. It sharpens the focus and heightens the motivation, so as to get the taste of losing out your mouth.
Poseur
Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.
Ivan Panin
I love those who can smile in trouble...
Leonardo da Vinci
Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.
Charles R. Swindoll
All have their miseries.... He is not truly a man who has not experienced adversity.
Edward Counsel
Adversity is never the end point; for those faced with a positive attitude, it's always the beginning.
J. Barry Griswell and Bob Jennings
Challenges are where you grow, adversity is what makes you stronger.
Ryan McGuyre
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Fried Nietzsche
Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot.
Anonymous
Adversity is a part of life, and if you don't want to deal with it now you never will.
Mark Fox
One thing I've learned in the face of adversity is that better things lie ahead, you just go through some hell to get to your heaven.
Jessica Coston
A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.
Pamela Anderson
The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.
John C Maxwell
Gratitude in adversity is the most beautiful and precious crown of the soul.
Ludovicus Blosius
Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nothing is more patent than that the discipline of adversity is by far the most gracious and elevating influence affecting human character.
Anonymous
A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.
Joan Borysenko
Keep Going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Roy T. Bennet
If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.
Terry Goodkind