Adversity Motivational Quotes:

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

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

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Motivational, Sports, Determination, Inspirational Baseball, Inspirational Coach

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

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

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

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

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

topic: Spring, Winter, Pleasant, March Poems, Spring Awakening

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

- Josephine Hart

source: "Fictional character: Anna Barton". "Damage", www.imdb.com. 1992.

topic: Adversity, People, Dangerous, Overcome Trials, Adversity Motivational

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

- Agatha Christie

source: Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Inspirational Adversity, Inspirational Sympathy

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

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Success, Military, Benefits, Inspirational Adversity, Success Failure

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Spiritual, Martial Arts Inspirational, Inspirational Athlete

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mastery, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Adversity

Courage is not the absence of fear

- Richard Stengel

topic: Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational Recovery

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

- George Washington

topic: Friendship, Inspiration, 4th Of July, Making Friends, Courteous

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

- John Wooden

topic: Life, Adversity, Men, Basketball Leadership, Adversity Motivational

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

- Saadi

topic: Adversity, Men, Prosperity, Insensible, Inspirational Adversity

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Love, Motivational, Smile, Strength In Adversity, Strength Of Mind

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

- James Neil Hollingworth

topic: Courage, Judgement, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

- James Buckham Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Disappointment, Character, Inspirational Adversity, Overcome Trials

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

- John Churton Collins

topic: Friendship, Adversity, Prosperity, Meaningful Friendship, Imaginary Friend

Sweet are the uses of adversity

- William Shakespeare

topic: Sweet, Philosophical, Adversity, Precious Jewels, Venomous

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

- Jonas Salk

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Positive Thinking, Dream World, Dreams And Nightmares

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

- Lewis Mumford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Rise Against, Adversity Motivational

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

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Temptation, Soul, Positive Energy, Inspirational Adversity, Overcome Trials

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

- Billy Graham

topic: Adversity, Reality, Religion, Inspirational Adversity, Words Of Comfort

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Dream, Cassius, Martial Arts Inspirational

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

- Horace

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

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Attitude, Inspirational Coaching

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Motivational, Sports, Cheer, Facing Adversity, Adversity And Character

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

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

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

- Duke Ellington

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

- Lord Byron

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

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Indomitable, Indomitable Spirit

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.

- Andre Gide

topic: Life, Spring, Real, Inspirational Adversity, Caress

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Life Wisdom, Job Opportunities

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Mans Search For Meaning, Live To The Fullest

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

- Og Mandino

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

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

- Malcolm X

topic: Time, Adversity, Loss, Adversity And Character, Adversity Motivational

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

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Management Motivation

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

- Stanisław I Leszczyński

source: François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.184

topic: Life, Faces, Kick Ass, Overcoming Hardship, Facing Adversity

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

- Confucius

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

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.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

topic: Life, Spring, Adversity, Spring Awakening, Spring Gardening

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