Adversity Quotes - Page 15

Adversity is preparation for greatness.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

No one's life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it's this adversity - and more specifically our resilience - that makes us strong and successful.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.

The will must be stronger than the skill.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

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.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our heads held high. Sometimes just walking through adversity to get to the other side is a sign of strength.

A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.

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

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

If you have your mind in the right direction, and your heart is full of the right kind of stuff, you'll succeed and you'll triumph over adversity, over really anything.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

Adversity is the true school of the mind.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.