Adversity In Life Quotes:

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Adversity, What Matters, Adversity In Life

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

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Men, Trials, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational Adversity

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

- Haruki Murakami

source: FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 25, 2016

topic: Inspirational, Change, Life Lesson, Having A Bad Day, Overcome Trials

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Success, Determination, Overcome Trials, Overcoming Hardship

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

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Nature, Inspirational Adversity, Overcoming Hardship

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

- Voltaire

topic: Inspirational, Running, Positive Thinking, Overcoming Hardship, Difficult Problems

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

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

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Moving On, Encouraging, Inspirational Adversity, Bends In The Road

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

- Arthur Golden

source: "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

topic: Strength, Success, Encouraging, Memories Of A Geisha, Strong Winds

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

- Horace

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Prosperous, Overcoming Hardship

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

- Horace

topic: Latin, Mind, Path, Life Path, Steep

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

- Truman Capote

source: Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Inspirational, Success, Perseverance, Failure In Life, Inspirational Adversity

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

- James Russell Lowell

source: James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.2

topic: Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Kindness, My Mistakes, Learning From Our Mistakes

Adversity is the first path to truth.

- Lord Byron

topic: Kindness, Adversity, Not Giving Up, Inspirational Adversity, Overcoming Challenges

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

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live For Yourself, Life Going On

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

source: Theodore Isaac Rubin (1983). “One to one: understanding personal relationships”, Viking Pr

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Artist, Large Family, Inspirational Adversity

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Wisdom And Experience, Moving On After Breakup

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Wise, Adversity, Sour Grapes, Adversity In Life

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

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Perseverance, Disappointment, Self Esteem, Inspirational Adversity, Overcoming Hardship

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

- Og Mandino

topic: Wisdom, Adversity, Triumph, Triumphant, Adversity And Character

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.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Good Character, Soul Force

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

- Duke Ellington

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Solved Problems, Jazz Musician

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Life, Positive, Happiness, Self Determination, Fear None

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

- Kenji Miyazawa

topic: Positive, Pain, Journey, Scoliosis, Hurt And Pain

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

- John Heywood

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Many Hands, Adverse

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

- Harry Golden

topic: Motivational, Hard Work, Luck, Sure Thing, Work Day

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Life, Hate, Inspirational Adversity, Overcoming Hardship

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

- Lee Iacocca

source: Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

topic: Adversity, Fate, Born, Overcoming Hardship, Adversity In Life

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Running, Wall, Giving Up, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

- Charles A. Beard

source: "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Stars, Inspirational Adversity, Moon And Stars

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Adversity, World, Easy, Inspirational Adversity, Overcoming Hardship

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

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Positive, Cheer, Feeling Down, Rough Day

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

- Edwin Markham

topic: Encouraging, Soul, Victory, Trunks, Small Victories

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Joy And Sadness, Inspirational Cancer

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Trying, Achieve, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Encounters, May, Overcoming, Make People Feel Better, Perserverance

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

- Hugh Miller

topic: Encouraging, Opportunity, Thorns, Support And Encouragement, Hitting Bottom

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Good Morning, Dream, Metaphors Of Life, Morning Air

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

- Mary Engelbreit

topic: Thinking, Way, Live For Yourself, Good Thoughts, My Attitude

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

- Robert Breault

topic: Adversity, Eye, Focus, Adversity In Life

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.

- Garrison Keillor

source: "Lake Wobegon Days". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1985.

topic: Strength, Success, Encouraging, Inspirational Adversity, Adversity In Life

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

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Motivational, Strength, Crazy, Adverse, Strength In Adversity

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Money, Adversity, Challenges, Inspirational Adversity, Adversity And Character

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Sports, Figures, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Enemy, Favors, Trouble, Facing Adversity, Adversity In Life