Overcoming Adversity Inspirational Quotes

#1. Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties ... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#2. I am not perfect and I don't pretend to be. My brand is about dealing with life after it happens and not sugar coating the fact that I'm a human who makes mistakes.

Isha Johnson

#3. In a flash Buck knew it. The time had come. It was to the death.

Jack London

#4. All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

Kevin Powers

#5. I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I've arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone's idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes
I hear angels sing.

Carrie Fisher

#6. Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

Madame De Stael

#7. The most vibrant of flowers often come from the filthiest of soils.

Zack W. Van

#8. I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth-sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting without bitterness those portions we have been afforded the luxury to see.

Chip St. Clair

#9. Ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

Richard Goldman

#10. No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.

Suzanne V. Marshall

#11. These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.

Henri Coanda

#12. You are stronger than your challenges and your challenges are making you stronger.

Karen Salmansohn

#13. May you find the grace of triumph over any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

Joan Baez

#15. Hope is a great assurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Edward Abbey

#17. I'm pretty pro-food.

Jami Attenberg

#18. Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.

Cathy Lamb

#19. Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come.

Kemi Sogunle

#20. It's not enough to step in front of people's bullets; you have to be bulletproof too. You have to be harder than anything anyone else can throw at you, and sometimes you risk losing yourself just trying to save yourself.

Anthony Breznican

#21. Trust in God gives self-power.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Struggle begets strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.

Dana Arcuri

#24. Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us.

Meg Jay

#25. For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#26. Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#27. My comedy is kind of a counteraction to some of the comedy I don't like. Or things I don't like.

Ron Funches

#28. Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#29. Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

Bill Shankly