Browsing Topic Best Adversity Quotes

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

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

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.

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.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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

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

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.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

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

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

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

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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

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

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God’s defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Inches make champions.

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.

Adversity is a good school.

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

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.

It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.