Adversity Quotes

“The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.”

“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”

“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not realise it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

“Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when the business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at their lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.”

“Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.”

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

“Doubtless princes become great when they overcome the difficulties and obstacles by which they are confronted.”

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”

“You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.”

“Here is the rule to remember in the future, when anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

“The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

“What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

Anne Bradstreet

“Your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.”

Seneca

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”

Horace

"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees."

Douglas Malloch

"Great necessities call out great virtues."

Abigail Adams

"It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed."

Abigail Adams

“Hope itself is like a star: not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”