Browsing Topic Best Inspirational Adversity Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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 owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.