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Quotes About Adversity

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.
~ Kerri Walsh
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
~ Alfred Tennyson
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
~ Horace
You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.
~ Alicia Keys
When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you
~ Chetan Bhagat
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
~ Ovid
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.
~ August Strindberg
You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.
~ David Robinson
Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?
~ Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You
Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.
~ T. D. Jakes
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Pressure makes diamonds
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
~ Tim Hansel
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
~ Aimee Mullins
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
~ Maya Angelou
Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.
~ Aron Ralston
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.
~ Joel Osteen
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
~ Joel Osteen
Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly.
~ Meg Whitman
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien