Adversity Quotes

Your blessings far outnumber your troubles.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Endurance is spiritual.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

~ Richard Llewellyn

I love those who can smile in trouble...

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

What can I now do to use my misfortunes constructively, to turn my suffering to advantage by finding something worthwhile to do that I could not have done so well if these tragedies had not occurred?

~ James C. Crumbaugh

No one could endure lasting adversity if it continued to have the same force as when it first hit us. We are all tied to Fortune, some by a loose and golden chain, and others by a tight one of baser metal: but what does it matter? We are all held in the same captivity, and those who have bound others are themselves in bonds - unless you think perhaps that the left-hand chain is lighter. One man is bound by high office, another by wealth; good birth weighs down some, and a humble origin others; some bow under the rule of other men and some under their own; some are restricted to one place by exile, others by priesthoods: all life is a servitude.So you have to get used to your circumstances, complain about them as little as possible, and grasp whatever advantage they have to offer: no condition is so bitter that a stable mind cannot find some consolation in it.

~ Seneca

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

~ W. Clement Stone

Without darkness, we may never know how bright the stars shine. Without battles, we could not know what victory feels like. Without adversity, we may never appreciate the abundance in our lives. Be thankful, not only for the easy times, but for every experience that has made you who you are.

~ Julie-Anne

Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us.

~ Meg Jay

There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

~ Roy Bennett

There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.

~ Roy Bennett

Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.

~ Debasish Mridha

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out.

~ R. N. Prasher

You did anything to bury me, but you forgot that I was a seed.

~ Dinos Christianopoulos

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Life with trials hard may press me,Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.

~ Henry F. Lyte

When you are standing in the middle of a storm you have two choices: Pray to God that it goes away. Or, start praying to God that he gives you the wisdom to figure out why you're standing in the middle of a storm.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The opportunities far outweigh the disappointments.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.

~ Dana Arcuri

Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming.

~ Gibson

All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Any meaning of life derives from amiably accepting our anonymous role in the singular order of the universe. Such gracious reception of life’s turbulences stems from willingly capitulating to whatever fomented experiences life brings us without harboring a disconsolate degree of remorse or regret.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I've played Romeo for Juliet(But in depth)It's vignettes of silhouettes(And then read)And watched Russian roulette, yeah red SovietYet doing it simultaneouslyWhile dropping down shed oubliettesTurned around and took truth to the head thatLove is the ugliest thing too beautiful for death

~ Criss Jami

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up.

~ Joe Biden

Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.

~ Debasish Mridha

In the ashes of adversity, lies opportunity.

~ S.l. Coelho

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work.

~ Thomas Mann

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

~ Dean Koontz

The hardest thing about everything happens for a reason is waiting for that reason to show up.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Patience is produced in the midst of storms, it blossoms under the intense pressures of the storms.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are.

~ Nikki Rowe

Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.

~ Cathy Lamb

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

~ Henry James

Perseverance is one of the keys to overcome the adverse circumstances of life.

~ Prophetess Dina Rolle

With a perseverance spirit, you withstand any situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With patience endurance, you can survive any storm.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My friends, we should consider ourselves fortunate, not because we are any greater or lesser because we face adversity, rather we simply rejoice in the opportunity to face it.

~ Michael Joling

The successful have the courage to walk each day toward something,only after coming through something.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

The most difficult adversary I have ever faced happens to look just like me.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

The successful possess the courage to walk each day toward something, after coming through everything.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.