Quotes about Adversity

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"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top."
-- Arnold Bennet

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity"
-- Ben Jonson

"The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is."
-- Charles M. Schwab

"Trouble shared is trouble halved."
-- Dorothy L. Sayers

"A wounded deer leaps the highest."
-- Emily Dickinson

"Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions."
-- H.G. Wells

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
-- Horace

"Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts."
-- Horace

"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid."
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."
-- Lee Salk

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
-- M Kathleen Casey

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
-- Mark Twain

"The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."
-- Phil Weltman

"Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."
-- Samuel Johnson

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."
-- Seneca

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
-- Seneca

"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances."
-- Seneca

"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records."
-- William A. Ward