Quotes About Adversity

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst."

It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly.

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm.

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Anything other than death is a minor injury.

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.