Adversity awakens the spirit of every man.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity begets spirituality.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

— William A. Ward

Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.

— Anonymous

Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

— Michael R. French

Adversity does not redefine but reestablished God's plan for our lives.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity doesn't exist to make us stronger. Adversity exists because this world is a damn hard place to live. Prove that you're better than the things it throws at you. Live.

— Seanan McGuire

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

— Søren Kierkegaard

Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self. And if that works, why not feeling disgust for shit, fearing the cliff edge and strangers, remembering insults and favors, liking sex and food? God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually.

— Ian McEwan

Adversity gives life the thrill of adventure.

— Debasish Mridha