Adversity Quotes

Adversity exasperates fools, rejects cowards, draws out the faculties of the wise and industrious, puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill, awes the opulent, and makes the idle industrious.

We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner… sulking and nausea.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Adversity Makes Strange Bedfellows.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Adversity doesnt build character, it reveals it.