Adversity Quotes · Page 112

Toast to the lessons not yet learned and to the trials that will teach them.

— Brooke Fraser

Happiness is best achieved when you have gone through tragedy and sorrow.

— Anonymous

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

— Anne Bradstreet

“The trying to do something is in itself enlightenment. When we are in difficulty or distress, there we have enlightenment.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

“Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Look on the bright side and don't let adversity keep you from winning.”

— Nicole Dominique Le Maire

“When adversity hits, reframe the challenge and find lessons learned; acknowledge gifts that have come from the pain.”

— Susan C. Young

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid…

— Orison Swett Marden

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And…

— Cathy Freeman

Everybody suffers through some type of adversity. Does it make you stronger or does it pull you down? And I never will…

— Donovan McNabb

When you face any adversity in life those are the kind of lessons you can take and remember. Those are the things…

— DeAndre Yedlin

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous…

— John Heywood

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I…

— Dominique Moceanu

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break.…

— Lucille Clifton

Struggles is when I stood on the course and had zero confidence, I was embarrassed, I didn't want to be there. I…

— Paul Casey

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

— Jeremy Collier

Everyone experiences difficulties in life and yet this - our common experience of humanity - is always a personal thing.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hop eall reside within you.

— Senora Roy

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

— Charles de Gaulle

“Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.”

— Anonymous

Trials will never be a reason for you to give up. Instead, an inspiration for you to be strong.

— Anonymous

Planning things in your head, hoping one day it will actually happen.

— Armin Ferizovic

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

— Anonymous

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

— Karen Handel

“Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity—and”

— Sheryl Sandberg

It is only when a person gets into difficulty that one can truly see his heart.

— Matthew Polly

The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

— J. Oswald Sanders

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

— Joseph Campbell

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

— Andrea Arnold

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

— Scott Hamilton

“Trial and error is your best friend. It's all about perspective and your willingness to become better with every lesson.”

— Robin S. Baker

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

— Mike Mills

In the face of adversity, it is sometimes necessary to cast aside ones pride.

— Brahms Georges Joseph

I believe that adversity and negativity can be an amazing fuel towards personal success.

— Jonathan Adler

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

— Samuel Smiles

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

— Thomas Jefferson

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

— Lou Holtz

“Don’t complain. Find the courage to be grateful for every circumstance.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— Aron Ralston