Top adversity Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of adversity quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Harold B. Lee
Don't try to live too many days at a time.
- Harold B. Lee
Collection: Adversity
Image of Jerry Bridges
Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.
- Jerry Bridges
Collection: Adversity
Image of Josh Billings
As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.
- Josh Billings
Collection: Adversity
Image of Arthur Bloch
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
- Arthur Bloch
Collection: Adversity
Image of Arthur Bloch
When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.
- Arthur Bloch
Collection: Adversity
Image of Tommy Tenney
Your problems aren't too big -- perhaps your worship is too small.
- Tommy Tenney
Collection: Adversity
Image of Charles Stanley
Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
- Charles Stanley
Collection: Adversity
Image of H. P. Blavatsky
Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.
- H. P. Blavatsky
Collection: Adversity
Image of Christopher Reeve
In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.
- Christopher Reeve
Collection: Adversity
Image of C. Northcote Parkinson
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.
- C. Northcote Parkinson
Collection: Adversity
Image of Aimee Mullins
Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.
- Aimee Mullins
Collection: Adversity
Image of Aimee Mullins
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
- Aimee Mullins
Collection: Adversity
Image of Dallin H. Oaks
Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.
- Dallin H. Oaks
Collection: Adversity
Image of Samuel Rutherford
I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.
- Samuel Rutherford
Collection: Adversity
Image of Bruce R. McConkie
All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.
- Bruce R. McConkie
Collection: Adversity
Image of W. Clement Stone
Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
- W. Clement Stone
Collection: Adversity
Image of W. Clement Stone
Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.
- W. Clement Stone
Collection: Adversity
Image of James Agee
It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.
- James Agee
Collection: Adversity
Image of Karen Hawkins
Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.
- Karen Hawkins
Collection: Adversity
Image of Catherine Marshall
God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
- Catherine Marshall
Collection: Adversity
Image of Stevie Nicks
I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.
- Stevie Nicks
Collection: Adversity
Image of Eiji Yoshikawa
The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.
- Eiji Yoshikawa
Collection: Adversity
Image of J.R. Miller
We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We can go on in quiet peace without the new blessing which we thought so necessary. We have not been saved from the battle we shrank so from entering, but we have sought and have gained the victory.
- J.R. Miller
Collection: Adversity
Image of Ralph Nader
You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.
- Ralph Nader
Collection: Adversity
Image of Pat Riley
We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.
- Pat Riley
Collection: Adversity
Image of David Beckham
I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong.
- David Beckham
Collection: Adversity
Image of Wes  Moore
The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.
- Wes Moore
Collection: Adversity
Image of Frederick William Robertson
As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
- Frederick William Robertson
Collection: Adversity
Image of Tim Tebow
Along the way there's going to be a lot of obstacles, a lot of adversity, a lot of people who will tell you you're not good enough. I'm here to tell you that you are. Everyone that tells you that you're not is because they didn't accomplish something.
- Tim Tebow
Collection: Adversity
Image of Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Collection: Adversity
Image of James E. Faust
Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.
- James E. Faust
Collection: Adversity
Image of James E. Faust
There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.
- James E. Faust
Collection: Adversity
Image of Charles J. Givens
Make choices-not excuses.
- Charles J. Givens
Collection: Adversity
Image of Steven Furtick
Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.
- Steven Furtick
Collection: Adversity
Image of Gary Player
That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.
- Gary Player
Collection: Adversity
Image of Thomas Dreier
Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.
- Thomas Dreier
Collection: Adversity
Image of Boethius
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
- Boethius
Collection: Adversity
Image of Thomas Watson
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.
- Thomas Watson
Collection: Adversity
Image of Annie Proulx
And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
- Annie Proulx
Collection: Adversity
Image of Howard Schultz
In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.
- Howard Schultz
Collection: Adversity
Image of Kathrine Switzer
Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that
- Kathrine Switzer
Collection: Adversity
Image of Walter Scott
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
- Walter Scott
Collection: Adversity
Image of Lucretius
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
- Lucretius
Collection: Adversity
Image of Pope Benedict XVI
Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Collection: Adversity
Image of Wendelin Van Draanen
Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
Collection: Adversity
Image of Anne Bronte
I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.
- Anne Bronte
Collection: Adversity
Image of Joseph B. Wirthlin
The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.
- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Collection: Adversity
Image of Joseph B. Wirthlin
If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.
- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Collection: Adversity
Image of Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Collection: Adversity
Image of Gao Xingjian
Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.
- Gao Xingjian
Collection: Adversity