Quotes about Adversity
As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.
- Madeleine Albright
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
- Victor Hugo
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
- Epictetus
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
- Charles Dickens
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'
- Abraham Lincoln
A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
- Anonymous
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
- St. John Chrysostom