Famous Quotes about Adversity (230 Quotations)

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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 welcome.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

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

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders — what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.

If you want to win anything — a race, your self, your life — you have to go a little berserk.

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

In my room as a kid… I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.