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 was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
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Hard work beats talent and talent beats hard work.
Kevin Durant
Kevin Durant
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Alexander
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That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
Gary State
Gary State
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There is no easy button in sales. Prospecting is hard, emotionally draining work, and it is the price you have to pay to earn a high income.
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
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Why accept failure when success is free?
Kevin Gates
Kevin Gates
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God is within her. She will not fail. - Psalm 46:5.
Sara Avant Stover
Sara Avant Stover
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But not all men seek rest and peace: some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.
Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam
Victor Kiam
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A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski
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Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor
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Run hard, be strong, think big!
Percy Cerutty
Percy Cerutty
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
George Berkeley
George Berkeley
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It's not information overload, it's filter failure.
Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky
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The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy. If I had but one bullet and I were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
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My motto is: 'Keep it simple, stupid. Work smart, not hard.'
Joe Teli
Joe Teli
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There are no difficulties except for those who worry too much about tomorrow.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
Rose Philippine Duchesne
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
Herodotus
Herodotus
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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
Akio Morita
Akio Morita
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All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
Max McKeown
Max McKeown
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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
Sally Tyler
Sally Tyler
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Short-term pain leads to long-term gain.
Charles F. Glassman
Charles F. Glassman
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Work hard and follow your dreams, but never forget where you came from.
Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Hudgens
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Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
Brandon Mull
Brandon Mull
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
Brian Kernighan
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I may own every breath in your body, but make no mistake, Adeline, you own mine too. I am yours to command. To bend and break. To mold and manipulate.
Unknown
Unknown
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
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You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
Clive Barker
Clive Barker
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We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
Maynard James Keenan
Maynard James Keenan
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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
Thomas Macaulay
Thomas Macaulay
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Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously.
John Kessel
John Kessel
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Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
Paul Samuelson
Paul Samuelson
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Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up.
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe
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Hard work pays off – hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
Robert Griffin III
Robert Griffin III
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land
Edwin Land
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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
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Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do.
Scott Hall
Scott Hall
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If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark
Frank A. Clark
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I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all.
Three Days Grace
Three Days Grace
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All records are made to be broken.
Red Auerbach
Red Auerbach
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There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by my self.
Brian Andreas
Brian Andreas
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The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.
Rodney Mullen
Rodney Mullen
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This is ten percent luck. Twenty percent skill. Fifteen percent power of will. Five percent pleasure. Fifty percent pain, and a hundred
percent reason to remember the name.
percent reason to remember the name.
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Will Cuidara
Will Cuidara
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The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.
Gerald R. Ford
Gerald R. Ford
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Pain is temporary, but pride lasts forever.
Ryan Lochte
Ryan Lochte
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
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Sweet as sugar, hard as ice. Hurt me once, I'll kill you twice.
Jeffree Star
Jeffree Star
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