Quotes about Adversity
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
- Seneca
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
- Seneca
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
- Seneca
A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall.
- Serena Williams
I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.
- Oprah Winfrey
I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.
- Oprah Winfrey
Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.
- Richard Paul Evans
Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.
- GK Chesterton
Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.
- Henry Ford
I have pretty thick skin. I've been in the arena a long time, and that means that I am not going to get down with [Donald Trump] and go insult for insult.
- Hillary Clinton
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
- James Howell
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt