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:

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm. ~ Cicely Tyson

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid. ~ Thomas Bernhard

Adversity is a severe instructor. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ~ Edmund Burke

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ~ Herbert Gasser

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. ~ Christy Mathewson

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

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. ~ English Proverb

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits - he has gained facts, learned his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit, has got moderation and real skill. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so. ~ Madam Swetchine