Browsing Topic Best Adversity Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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.

Inches make champions.

Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.

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

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

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

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

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

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

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.