Inspirational Quotes on Adversity and Challenge

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
       - Albert Einstein

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
       -George S. Patton

Adventure is worthwhile.
       -Amelia Earhart

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
       -Joshua J. Marine

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
       -William Ellery Channing

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
       - Brian Weir

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
       - Greek Proverb

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
       - Jean Sibelius

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
       - Mark Twain

At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.
       - Hudson newsletter

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
       - Anonymous

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
       - Anonymous

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
       - Anonymous

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
 - Alexander Graham Bell

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
       –Nash

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
       -Bernice Johnson Reagon

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.
       -Anonymous

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
      - Sydney J. Harris

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
       - Plutarch