Quotes about Adversity
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.
- Wayne Dyer
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
- Tony Robbins
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
- Euripides
A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.
- James Faust
Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.
- Napoleon Hill
God will only push you off a cliff if He's going to give you wings to fly.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
- Lou Holtz
The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
- Lou Holtz
I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!
- Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
- Albert Einstein