Adversity Quotes

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. Carol Burnett

"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers." Johann K Lavater

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon, Sr

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. Indeed life is a have to defend and protect ourselves, and with a cheerful and brace spirit we must battle; we plan and calculate in order to make progress. Vincent van Gogh

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? Bette Greene

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours. Noela Evans

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Elvis Presley

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. Bernie Siegel

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. John W. Gardner

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. Sarah Ban Breathnach

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein

You'll know your limits until you try to extend them and even then, one has to break out of his/her comfort zone to appreciate that effort. Martin Dansky

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. Louis Pasteur

Adversity is the first path to truth; He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty. Lord Byron

In adversity remember to keep an even mind. Horace

Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom. Welsh Proverb

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing. John Clare

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.Francis Bacon, Sr

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them. William Hazlitt

Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that is the difficulty. I think there are no signs in my work that indicate that I shall fail. And I am not a person who works slowly or tamely. Drawing becomes a passion with me, and I throw myself into it more and more. I do not have great plans for the future; if for a moment I feel rising within me the desire for a life without care, for prosperity, each time I go fondly back to the trouble and the cares, to a life full of hardship, and think: It is better so; I learn more from it, and make progress. This is not the road on which one perishes. I only hope the trouble and the cares will not become unbearable, and I have confidence I shall succeed in earning enough to keep myself, not in luxury, but as one who eats his bread in the sweat of his brow. Vincent van Gogh

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness? William Makepeace Thackeray

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. William Bennett

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. Horace

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." John Quincy Adams

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. Abdul Kalam

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it. Oliver Goldsmith

Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them. Benjamin Franklin

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them. Thomas Jefferson

Adversity and loss make a man wise. Welsh Proverb

Out of difficulties grow miracles. Jean de la Bruyere

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. Arthur Schopenhauer

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes