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.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.
Meek Mill
Meek Mill
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These things will be hard to do, but you can do hard things.
Cannon Doyle Melton
Cannon Doyle Melton
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Alan Kay
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn
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Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God
Anatole France
Anatole France
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Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
Soichiro Honda
Soichiro Honda
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Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.
Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca the Elder
Seneca the Elder
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne
Jules Verne
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Truman Capote
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Seneca
Seneca
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The hard, cold reality of trading is that every trade has an uncertain outcome.
Mark Douglas
Mark Douglas
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
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There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice
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Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
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Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.
David Correia
David Correia
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Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.
Mark Rippetoe
Mark Rippetoe
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Not why the addiction, but why the pain.
Gabor Mate
Gabor Mate
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher
James Altucher
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All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.
Ernie Smith
Ernie Smith
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Hard work and training. There's no secret formula.
Ronnie Coleman
Ronnie Coleman
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player
Gary Player
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The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson
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We learn from failure, not from success!
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
David McCullough
David McCullough
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The calm before the storm.
Derek Landy
Derek Landy
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The obstacle is the path.
Sara Shepard
Sara Shepard
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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford
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It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.
Adam Sandler
Adam Sandler
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Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.
Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Ive
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To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.
William Pollard
William Pollard
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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Lisa Loeb
Lisa Loeb
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Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn...
Dan Brown
Dan Brown
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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
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After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.
Marah Carey
Marah Carey
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The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen
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The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.
Mal Higdon
Mal Higdon
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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
John Bradshaw
John Bradshaw
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
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In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
Claude Monet
Claude Monet
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Train hard, fight easy.
Alexander Suvorov
Alexander Suvorov
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It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
Rose Kennedy
Rose Kennedy
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We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.
Sister Ann Nona
Sister Ann Nona
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Success is made of 99% failure.
James Dyson
James Dyson
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He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
Emily Giffin
Emily Giffin
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No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on.
J Cole
J Cole
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