Quotes on Inspirational Adversity

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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.

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.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

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

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

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.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

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

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.