Adversity Quotes

You don't drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there.

~ Edwin Louis Cole

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

~ Robertson Davies

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

~ Dave Pelzer

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

~ John Green

It is not because things are difficult that we dare not undertake them. Be then bold in spirit. Indulge no doubts, for doubts are traitors.

~ L.g. Abell

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

These are the times that try men's souls.

~ Thomas Paine

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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, and not merely as we might like to be.

~ Arthur Golden

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so wel

~ Anne Bradstreet

We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.

~ Annie Proulx

Sweet are the uses of adversityWhich, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

~ William Shakespeare

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

~ Abigail Adams

It's essential you create a fiery will from within--harness that power of decisiveness--and choose to be your strongest self.

~ Karen Salmansohn

May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is ... Chocolate.

~ Geraldine Solon

Struggle is the food from which change is made, and the best time to make the most of a struggle is when it's right in front of your face. Now, I know that might sound a bit simplistic. But, too often we're led to believe that struggling is a bad thing, or that we struggle because we're doing something wrong. I disagree. I look at struggle as an opportunity to grow. True struggle happens when you can sense what is not working for you and you're willing to take the appropriate action to correct the situation. Those who accomplish change are willing to engage the struggle.

~ Danny Dreyer

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon

~ Walter Scott

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

~ C.s. Lewis

Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

~ Virginia Euwer Wolff

I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

If you fall-and trust me, you will- make sure you fall on your back. Because if you fall on your back, you can see up. And if you can see up, you can get up. And you can keep going and going and going.

~ Hoda Kotb

Memories of the past year came tumbling down on me. The recent changes and reverses were almost overwhelming. I was learning that life flowed like a river. When the run-off was normal, the water ran smoothly. But if there came a downpour, it gushed. In the likeness to a flooding river, life events were caught up in the course of the devouring stream.

~ Mary Margaret Jensen

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

~ Ricky Skaggs

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

~ Bruce Barton

Regardless of the situation, don’t let the bastards win … and have no regrets … for it will be a good day!-Richard Wakinyan (Martian Fleet Commander)

~ R.g. Risch

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

~ Horace Bushnell

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

~ Florida Scott-Maxwell

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

~ Solon

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God's dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that right from the git-go, Larkin Stanton had the longest and hardest row I've ever seen.

~ Sheila Kay Adams

Always be in command of your music. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

~ Suzy Kassem

Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength, within our trials lives our triumphs. Friction creates a platform for change, generates heat and or fervor and creates a motivational charge that gives us an opportunity to be better. A gem cannot be polished without friction and so neither a person without hardships. Friction within and friction without sharpens our senses and revives our internal resolutions. Friction is uncomfortable, hardships are distressing but both are necessary. We cannot light a match without friction nor can we hone steal. Uncomfortable as it may be, our adversity ultimately lights a fire and sharpens our very will to flourish. Today, let us not be discouraged, let us not be bitter in our suffering rather let us be encouraged as we look to our trials as a medium that will eventually make us better.

~ Jason Versey

You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself.

~ Seneca

Screw it. Bring on that sorry dragon!Comes down to it, I'll bet Hrundig knows a recipe for cooking the mangy beasts.

~ Eric Flint

You can’t take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.

~ Tana French

I had long believed adversity was the greatest teacher, but I learnt that nothing teaches you more about life than death.

~ Alex Staniforth

There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only what Nerchinsk had taken, but what it had given her as well.

~ Alexandra Silber

Brotherhood is born in adversity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

~ Carolyn Wells