Motivational Quote of the Day

Inspirational Quotes About Adversity


Tough times never last, but tough people do!

~ Robert Schuller


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

~ Horace


Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

~ Douglas MacArthur


Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

~ Lance Armstrong


Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

~ William Ward


Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.

~ Marcus Aurelius


There are no failures; just experiences and your reactions to them.

~ Tom Krause


Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success.

~ Frank Davidson


Every artist was first an amateur.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

~ William Shakespeare


Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

~ Les Brown


What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

~ Oscar Wilde


Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.

~ Bertrand Russell


I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

~ Martha Beck