Times Of Adversity Quotes:

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Robert H. Schuller

source: Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

topic: Motivational, Positive, Funny Inspirational, Daily Work, Just Stay Strong

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

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Difficult Life, Leaders Motivational

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

- Ulysses S. Grant

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

topic: Motivational, Friendship, Positive, Gloom, Getting Through Hard Times

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

- Michael Jordan

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

- Henry Ford

topic: Experience, Sometimes, Realizing, Good Character, Model T

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Positive, Teacher, Adversity, Getting Through Hard Times, Going Through Hard Times

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

- William Samuel Johnson

topic: Positive, Adversity, Mets, Feeling Down, Strength In Adversity

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Life, Positive, Success, Inspirational Cancer, Inspiring Cancer

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Character, Wish, Endurance, Inspirational Adversity, Facing Adversity

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

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

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

- Richard M. Nixon

source: Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Just Give Up, Strength In Hard Times

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

- Dolly Parton

source: Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Rain, Obstacles And Challenges

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

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

- Victor Kiam

topic: Motivational, Moving On, Failure, Inspirational Moving Forward, Inspirational Moving On

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Hard Times, Entrepreneur, Challenges, Tall, Difficult Challenges

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

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

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

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

- Duke Ellington

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

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

- Epicurus

topic: Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage, Human Relations, Happy Relationship

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

- Robert Fulghum

source: Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

topic: Life, Positive, Future, Overcoming Challenges, Lump In The Throat

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

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

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

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Humorous, Mind, Littles, Strength And Life, Strength And Love

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

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

- Mark Twain

source: "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Equator, Times Of Adversity

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Cancer, Hard Times, Tough Times, Inspirational Cancer, Inspiring Cancer

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Inspirational, Kindness, Adversity, Hang In There, Times Of Adversity

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

- Billie Holiday

source: Billie Holiday, William Dufty (1956). “Lady sings the blues”

topic: Adversity, Fighting, Winning, Times Of Adversity

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

- Robert Collier

topic: Lying, Adversity, Winning, Times Of Adversity

Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

- John Bonifaz

topic: War, Done, Impossible, Journey Inspirational, Journey To Success

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 has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

- Josh Billings

topic: Life, Adversity, Fighting, Times Of Adversity

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

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Life, Depression, Disney Company, Adversity And Perseverance

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Life, Break Up, Strength In Adversity, Adversity And Character

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Adversity