Adversity Quotes

Inspirational Thoughts for Overcoming Obstacles and Problems

Why use adversity quotes when overcoming obstacles and dealing with challenges? Inspirational thoughts are simply a powerful and smart way to gain needed perspective and insight to deal with whatever troubles you are facing in life. When working to overcoming adversity, use quotes to gain strength and guidance. One of my favorite mottos is: When the going gets tough, give me a quote.

Positive Quotes List:

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you'll know you're dead. ~ Tennessee Williams

Character cannot be developed in ease and quite. Only through experience of trail and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

From the discontent of man, the world's best progress springs. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow. ~ William J.H. Boetcker

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Charles F. Kettering.

Trouble is the thing that strong men grown by. Met in the right way, it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and asking him a tougher man to down forever after. ~ H. Bertram Lewis

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no thrones; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. ~ William Penn

Times of stress and difficult are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown. ~ Thomas F. Woodlock