Quotes about Adversity
The most humiliating word in the human language. But.
- Rachel Hauck
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our strength grows out of our weaknesses
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
- Malala Yousafzai
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
- John Donne
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.
- Joseph Addison
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
- Khalil Gibran
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
- Livy
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
- Marcus Aurelius
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
- Theodore Roosevelt