Quotes about adversity

372 quotes tagged “adversity”.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday
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You can't fly unless you let yourself fall.
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber
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The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.
Nido R. Qubein
Nido R. Qubein
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Be an individual work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings
E.E. Cummings
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There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equal as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that is that. I am not talented, I am obsessed.
Unknown
Unknown
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Fall down seven times, get up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Japanese Proverb
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Scott Adams
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Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.
Chris Bradford
Chris Bradford
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life: and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Unknown
Unknown
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We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.
Robert Brault
Robert Brault
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To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. To learn, in other words, is an act of deep work.
Cal Newport
Cal Newport
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Life is not fair, it never was, it isn't now, and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey
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If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
Sophocles
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Challenge yourself; it's the only path which leads to growth.
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
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Maybe my pain was my motivation.
LeBron James
LeBron James
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Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts; supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.
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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
C.G.Jung
C.G.Jung
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We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
Henry Cloud
Henry Cloud
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken- winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
David Lynch
David Lynch
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And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish
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Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.
Hil Harper
Hil Harper
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Adversity is preparation for greatness.
Andy Andrews
Andy Andrews
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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
Christopher Reeve
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A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.
Gary Ray
Gary Ray
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It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
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When the pressure is on, you don't rise to the occasion - you fall to your highest level of preparation.
Chris Voss
Chris Voss
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To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.
Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
Jamie Jackson
Jamie Jackson
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I'd always end up broken down on the highway. When I stood there trying to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But when I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you
want help, help yourself - people like to see that.
want help, help yourself - people like to see that.
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After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
Walt Disney
Walt Disney
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
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Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Rachel Naomi Remen
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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
Unknown
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We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.
Robert Fulghum
Robert Fulghum
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Focused, hard work is the real key to success.
John Carmack
John Carmack
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The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
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Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D'Lemons
Christian D'Lemons
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Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler
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Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don't learn to control it, it'll destroy you and everything around you.
Cai Datnako
Cai Datnako
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If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn
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We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.
Brene Brown
Brene Brown
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We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
Archilochus
Archilochus
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Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
Viral Kohli
Viral Kohli
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Unknown
Unknown
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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kamij Miyazawa
Kamij Miyazawa
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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg
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We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
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Live to win, dare to fail.
James Hetfield
James Hetfield
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Do not pray for an easy life. pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
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Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry
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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind, we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
BUDDHA
BUDDHA
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
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Giving up is the only sure way to fail.
Gena Showalter
Gena Showalter
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Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.
Jayme Lynn Bowles
Jayme Lynn Bowles
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There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.
Marcelo Gleiser
Marcelo Gleiser
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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Moms L. West
Moms L. West
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Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Eric Mangini
Eric Mangini
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In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate.
Jim Wallis
Jim Wallis
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Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.
J R D Tata
J R D Tata
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Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant
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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall
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If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Mary Anne Radmacher
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Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.
Nastia Lidin
Nastia Lidin
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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Jake Arrieta
Jake Arrieta
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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen
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Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.
Jaime Escalante
Jaime Escalante
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Work hard and stay focused to achieve your goals and dreams in life. That is the path to true happiness!
Xavier Dapu
Xavier Dapu
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Aim high, work hard, and love your family.
Deborah Roberts
Deborah Roberts
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Pain is the touchstone of all growth.
Bill W.
Bill W.
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I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
Bette Davis Taylor
Bette Davis Taylor
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If you don't try, you can't fail. If you do try, you might fail anyway. But better to have failed than never tried.
Chloe Thurlow
Chloe Thurlow
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After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford
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If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.
Dan Gable
Dan Gable
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I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying.
Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid
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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.
David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller
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Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore
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Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.
Russell L. Ackoff
Russell L. Ackoff
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Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.
Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Radcliffe
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The only time we fail is when we stop trying.
Chuck Norris
Chuck Norris
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Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult.
TobyMac
TobyMac
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Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
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There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
Gary Player
Gary Player
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
Bernie S. Siegel
Bernie S. Siegel
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Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.
Richard Davidson
Richard Davidson
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I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.
Florence Griffith Joyner
Florence Griffith Joyner
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vern Law
Vern Law
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R.D. Laing
R.D. Laing
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