Best Overcoming Adversity Quotes

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.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

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

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

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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.

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.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

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

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

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

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.

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it’s one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they’re still able to smile that’s something else. That’s true strength.

Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to overcome adversity.

I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.

One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.

Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

You have to act and act now.

You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!