Quotes About Adversity

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

Difficulties, opposition, criticism - these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crises, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.