Adversity Quotes

Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy. (Romeo and Juliet)

When you fall into a pit, you either die or get out.

The true way to soften one’s troubles is to solace those of others.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.

It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

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

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them.