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Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Sep 10, 2025
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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.
We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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.
Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.
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.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.