Adversity Quotes

Sweet are the uses of adversity to the party it doesn't happen to.
- Anonymous Author

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
- Romanian Proverb

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
- Rona Barrett

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
- Anonymous Author

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.
- Francis Bacon

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
- Jewish Proverb

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
- Garth Brooks

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
- Horace