Quotes about Adversity
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
- Ellen Glasgow
Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
- William Faulkner
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
- Anonymous
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
- Anonymous
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
- Abraham Lincoln
Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
- Etty Hillesum
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
- Charles Spurgeon
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
- Lou Holtz
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
- Samuel Johnson
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
- Samuel Johnson
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
- Anonymous