2,568 Quotes About Adversity

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

There's no comparison. One of the tenets of football, its essence, is triumphing over adversity. That can be your opponent, your shortcomings or it can be the weather.

A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure

It was an amazing game. We were challenged and faced a little adversity. Luckily, we got the job done.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. That was a humbling experience. But in a lot of ways, to be humbled is probably a positive thing in the long run. Adversity is where most of life's lessons are learned.

This is exactly what we need to do, to have adversity and overcome it. This is big and it can set a tone. We didn't play our best game and maybe we shouldn't have been in that position to begin with, but to see them hang in there and come back is as important as anything that could have happened.