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.

If you work hard, it will pay off in the end.
Lindsay Vonn
Lindsay Vonn
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne
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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
Harry Golden
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Sometimes the most important conversations are the most difficult to engage in.
Sophie Kinsella
Sophie Kinsella
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No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.
Anderson Silva
Anderson Silva
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Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
Dave Mustaine
Dave Mustaine
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Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.
Kami Garcia
Kami Garcia
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Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
Kenichi Ohmae
Kenichi Ohmae
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Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
Tim Hansel
Tim Hansel
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
George William Curtis
George William Curtis
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Emotions are tunnels. You have to go all the way through the darkness to get to the light at the end.
Emily Nagoski
Emily Nagoski
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It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.
Wendy Phipps
Wendy Phipps
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I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
Colonel Sanders
Colonel Sanders
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Broken crayons still colour the same
Trent Shelton
Trent Shelton
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I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.
Unknown
Unknown
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What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?
Laura Story
Laura Story
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All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome.
David Belle
David Belle
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Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.
Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal
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One happy day for every falling leaf you catch.
Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George E. Woodberry
George E. Woodberry
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Light does not come from light, but from darkness.
Miroza Blade
Miroza Blade
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Even when I fall and hurt myself I keep running toward my dream.
BTS
BTS
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If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.
Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston
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Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.
Corita Kent
Corita Kent
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It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
Jim Abbott
Jim Abbott
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Destroying is easy. Creating is hard.
Carissa Broadbent
Carissa Broadbent
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It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Roy Disney
Roy Disney
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Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
John J. Beckley
John J. Beckley
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Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light.
David Archuleta
David Archuleta
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Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.
Sam Storms
Sam Storms
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What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
Dean Smith
Dean Smith
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Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
David Packard
David Packard
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If you believe you will fail, then you most likely will.
Rebecca Ross
Rebecca Ross
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Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".
John James Ingalls
John James Ingalls
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Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.
Shari Brooks
Shari Brooks
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Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John
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The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
Hunter Hayes
Hunter Hayes
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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree,
you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
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Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that's hard work.
Tim Howard
Tim Howard
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Every failure is a step to success.
William Whewell
William Whewell
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If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me.
Norah Jones
Norah Jones
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Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift: We have hard work to do and loads to lift: Shun not the struggle-face it: 'tis God's gift.
Martha Donovan Batcock
Martha Donovan Batcock
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As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
Henry Cavill
Henry Cavill
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
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Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.
Cheryl Rogers
Cheryl Rogers
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Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Dale Partridge
Dale Partridge
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