Adversity Quotes

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

- Anne Bradstreet

"I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together."

- Sylvia Plath

"Nothing burns like the cold."

- George R.R. Martin

"Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong."

- Dana Spiotta

"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."

- Dan Rather

"Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two."

- Navjot Singh Sidhu

"There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!"

- Stevie Wonder

"Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are"

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do."

- Bo Jackson

"Many times, I had to dig deep and perform. All of that adversity helped me and drove me to want to be the best."

- Hayley Wickenheiser

"Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle."

- Wilma Rudolph

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

- Bill Bryson

"Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all."

- Will Carleton

"Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income."

- Kushal Pal Singh

"Today, somewhere in America, more foreclosures. More auctions. Another farmer plots his own death. And another. There is an art to making your death by combine look like an accident."

- Carolyn Chute

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us, when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

- Washington Irving

"If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent."

- Bette Davis

"It is never easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it."

- Betty White

"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children!"

- Sam Levenson

"The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents."

- John J. Plomp

"Challenges are what make life interesting. Embrace them this Thursday."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Perhaps one day it will be pleasing to recall even such hardships."

- Virgil

"He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart."

- Chinua Achebe

"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy."

- William Golding

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

- Lou Holtz

"Adversity is the first path to truth."

"Embrace challenges as stepping stones to triumph, not stumbling blocks."

"Adversity introduces you to the warrior within; embrace the battle."

"We don't grow when things are easy, We grow when we face Challenges. Good Morning!"