Adversity Quotes and Sayings
Adversity is a hard but great teacher in life – it either builds you up or breaks you down. Adversity has produced many of the most successful people in the world. Adversity has defeated many inspiring and clever people. Adversity harasses the weak but surrenders to those who are determined, persistent and persevering.
- Dr T.P.Chia
The more you learn from hardship and adversity, the more you are equipped to face the future.
- Dr T.P.Chia
Gems cannot be polished without friction nor a man perfected without adversity.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
- William Arthur Ward
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
- Victor Hugo
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
- Zig Ziglar
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
- Shia LaBeouf
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
- Horace
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
- Og Mandino
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
- Henry Fielding
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
- Golda Meir
Adversity is the first path to truth.
- Lord Byron
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
- Publilius Syrus
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
- Horace
Adversity is a stimulus.
- James Broughton
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
- Rose Kennedy
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
- Thomas Carlyle