Adversity And Character Quotes by Albert Schweitzer, Josh Billings, Seneca the Younger, Victor Hugo, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Robert Kennedy and many others.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
The greatest works of admiration,
And all the fair examples of renown.
Out of distress and misery are grown.
And all the fair examples of renown.
Out of distress and misery are grown.
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
