Top 413 Adversity Quotes

No one escapes hard seasons. These quotes on adversity come from people who were tested by failure, loss, and setback, and kept going anyway. They are reminders that struggle is often where strength is built, not where it ends.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Soros
George Soros
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Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed
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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers
Ann Landers
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan
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There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.
Roger Federer
Roger Federer
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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
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You're an idiot. Study harder.
Hideaki Anno
Hideaki Anno
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
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There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
L.M. Montgomery
L.M. Montgomery
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There are no failures - only feedback.
Richard Bandler
Richard Bandler
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The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
Chogyam Trungpa
Chogyam Trungpa
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Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien
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Great, let's round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them – Jayfeather.
Erin Hunter
Erin Hunter
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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
Patrick Rothfuss
Patrick Rothfuss
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We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke
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There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison
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Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.
Alex Ferguson
Alex Ferguson
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
F.Simone
F.Simone
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
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Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
Ovid
Ovid
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Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
G. Michael Hopf
G. Michael Hopf
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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas J. Watson
Thomas J. Watson
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Fear God and work hard.
David Livingstone
David Livingstone
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Great souls suffer in silence.
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller
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An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky
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Dream big, work hard, stay humble.
Brad Meltzer
Brad Meltzer
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. Pirsig
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
Andre Gide
Andre Gide
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Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
Drew Houston
Drew Houston
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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore
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Work faster, smarter and harder.
Larry Winget
Larry Winget
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Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
Ben Feldman
Ben Feldman
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.
Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk
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I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury me.
J.R. Ward
J.R. Ward
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi
Saadi
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We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
Bob Ross
Bob Ross
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Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.
Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff
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Pain is weakness leaving the body.
United States Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness
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We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
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The only failure is not to try.
George Clooney
George Clooney
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