Quotes about Adversity
In life you will meet two kinds of people: Those who build you up and those who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank them both.
- Anonymous
People are like tea bags—they never know their own strength until they get into hot water.
- Anonymous
Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.
- Anonymous
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.
- Euripides
For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.
- Euripides
Sometimes life makes you older than your age.
- Eva Marie Everson
In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I talk with the authority of failure.
- F Scott Fitzgerald