Quotes about Adversity
Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.
— Nicky Gumbel
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker
— John Maxwell
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
— William Hazlitt
Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
— Anais Nin
God being willing and whether traitors be few or many I intend to fight them to the end.
— Andrew Johnson
Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
— Samuel Johnson
Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
— Samuel Johnson
Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.Shak.As you like it. Concerning deliverance itself from all adversity
— Samuel Johnson
How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cuse or cure!
— Samuel Johnson
This iron world (the same he weeping says)Brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state:For misery doth bravest minds abate.Spens.Hubberd's Tale.
— Samuel Johnson
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country.
— John Adams