23 Movie Quotes about Adversity (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about adversity, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.

Pat Morita as The Emperor Of China in Mulan (1998)

2 'All sunshine makes a desert,' so the Arabs say.

Roddy McDowall as VINCENT LF-396 in The Black Hole (1979)

3 Ha! Think you got it bad? My tunnels are soaked. This weather isn't fit for man nor beast. Not to mention gophers.

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

4 Life's imperfect. -Yeah. For you two. Circling above it at 500 feet, it's imperfect. Down in the street, it's unforgiving.

Tom Sizemore as Danny Mcknight in Black Hawk Down

5 How'd you get to be so good at bad luck anyways?

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 Not surprised the sky's coming down. Only surprised it didn't happen yesterday.

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

7 Look, pal, this here ain't no good ship Lollipop over here.

Lorenzo Music as Garfield in Here Comes Garfield (1982)

8 Now I'm really done for. -No, no, you're in a great spot, boy. You can't go down now. It can only be up from here.

Karl Swenson as Merlin; Arthur From The Sword In The Stone in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

9 Thank you, thank you. But it hasn't all been champagne and caviar. I've had my share of adversity...

Vincent Price as Professor Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective

10 Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked, in the head, by an iron boot?

Peter Graves as Capt. Clarence Oveur in Airplane (1980)