Quotes on Adversity Motivational

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

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.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

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.

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.

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

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.