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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Inches make champions.

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

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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

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

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.

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

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

No one’s life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it’s this adversity – and more specifically our resilience – that makes us strong and successful.

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.

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