2,568 Quotes About Adversity

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

Notice the painful lashes upon your shoulders, done so solely by the crop attached to your belt.

The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

What a testing of character adversity is.

If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. ... In this way the soul can become like soft clay in the hands of the Master.

If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.