These adversity quotes will inspire you. Adversity difficulties; misfortune or tragedy.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging adversity quotes, adversity sayings, and adversity proverbs.
Famous Adversity Quotes
- “Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.” ~ Plutarch
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” ~ Henry Ford
- “If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.” ~ Michael Jordan
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“Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.” ~ Abu Bakr
- “Adversity introduces a man to himself.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “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.
- “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“There is no education like adversity.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.” ~ Voltaire
- “It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.” ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
- “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
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“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.” ~ Sophocles
- “Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.” ~ Robertson Davies
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” ~ Dolly Parton
- “Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.” ~ Napoleon Hill
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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ~ John Wooden
- “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.” ~ Samuel Smiles
- “Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “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
- “Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.” ~ Og Mandino , Triumph over adversity quotes
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“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” ~ William Ellery Channing
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” ~ Bill Gates
- “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.” ~ Horace
- “Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”” ~ Ann Landers
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“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” ~ Christopher Reeve
- “Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God’s most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.” ~ Charles Stanley
- “We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.” ~ Frank A. Clark
- “It’s not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
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“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.” ~ Josephine Hart
- “Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.” ~ Billy Graham , Prosperity and adversity quotes
- “The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “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
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“I’ve never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.” ~ Lou Holtz
- “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” ~ Joel Osteen
- “The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.” ~ Will Rogers
- “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” ~ Moliere
- “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.” ~ Bernard Baruch
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“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” ~ Epicurus , Courage in adversity quotes
- “Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.” ~ Henry Fielding
- “Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “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
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“Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.” ~ Spencer W. Kimball
- “Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.” ~ Rose Kennedy
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“Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
- “When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.” ~ Robert Breault
- “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.” ~ Arthur Golden
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“The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.” ~ Morris Mandel
- “My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.” ~ Hank Aaron
- “Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.” ~ Paul Tournier
Adversity is a difficult situation or condition.
