Quotes About Adversity

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

Unless a man has been kicked around a little, you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

This struggle of people against their conditions, this is where you find the meaning in life.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.