Quotes About Adversity

Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts, learned his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit, has got moderation and real skill.

Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

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

One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

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

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall, - Some days must be dark and dreary.

Old birds are hard to pluck.

When pain ends, gain ends too.

Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.