Best Adversity Quotes

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

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.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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.

I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won’t get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Inches make champions.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

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

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.