Quotes on Adversity

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.Ralph Waldo Emerson

• learning
• adversity

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.Booker Washington

• adversity
• civil rights

When God permits His children to go through the furnace, He keeps His eye on the clock and His hand on the thermostat. His loving heart knows how much and how long.Warren Wiersbe

• God
• adversity

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• character
• adversity
• challenge

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.Abraham Lincoln

• character
• adversity
• power

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.Sidney Greenberg

• adversity
• criticism
• success

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.Booker Washington

• adversity

If you succeed in life, you must do it in spite of the efforts of others to pull you down. There is nothing in the idea that people are willing to help those who help themselves. People are willing to help a man who can't help himself, but as soon as a man is able to help himself, and does it, they join in making his life as uncomfortable as possible.Edgar Watson Howe

• adversity
• criticism

Let no one or anything stand between you and the difficult task, let nothing deny you this rich chance to gain strength by adversity, confidence by mastery, success by deserving it. Do it better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it.Harlow Curtice

• adversity
• excellence