Quotes about Adversity
Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
- James A. Garfield
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
- Henry Ward Beecher
To lose Is to learn.
- Anonymous
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
- Euripides
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
- Anonymous
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
- Anonymous
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
- Epictetus
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
- Kathleen Norris
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Anonymous
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
- Catherine of Siena