Best Adversity And Character Quotes

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by 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.

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

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

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.