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.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
Jahangir Khan
Jahangir Khan
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You were unsure which pain is worse - the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing
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Ad astra per aspera, to the stars through adversity.
Morgan Matson
Morgan Matson
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Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.
Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton
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When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.
Mary Levy
Mary Levy
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You learn from your mistakes.
Thierry Henry
Thierry Henry
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There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in. – Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Gannon Doyle
Gannon Doyle
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Sing loud for the sunshine. Pray hard for the rain.
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
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When all else fails, philosophize.
J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee
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The sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.
Natsume Takaya
Natsume Takaya
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It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
William Styron
William Styron
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney
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No Heroics. If you need a hero to get things done, you have a problem. Heroic effort should be viewed as a failure of planning.
Jeff Sutherland
Jeff Sutherland
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Remember, the greatest failure is not to try.
Debbi Fields
Debbi Fields
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Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
Ken Follett
Ken Follett
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Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day.
Gary Allan
Gary Allan
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The root of suffering is attachment.
Buddha
Buddha
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The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.
Rayon Manning
Rayon Manning
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I accept any challenge.
Jennifer Hudson.
Jennifer Hudson.
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Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society - once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas
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You will hear thunder and remember me. And think: she wanted storms. The rim of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson. And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
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If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.
Mark Spitz
Mark Spitz
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If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.
Lisa Delpit
Lisa Delpit
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If we aren't intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
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The one who doesn't fall, doesn't stand up.
Fedor Emelianenko
Fedor Emelianenko
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Play hard, play smart, play together, have fun.
Morgan Wootten
Morgan Wootten
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What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?
David Bach
David Bach
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I work hard and fight easy.
Conor McGregor
Conor McGregor
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Act as though it is impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
Dorothea Brande
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I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.
Tony Hoare
Tony Hoare
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You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Dara Khosrowshahi
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Rejection isn't failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up.
Richard Garriott
Richard Garriott
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The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
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I can see clearly now that the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, it's gonna be a bright, bright sun shining day.
Shirley Nash
Shirley Nash
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Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray - a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.
Unknown
Unknown
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Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow.
Alan Rufus
Alan Rufus
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Everything fails, all the time.
Weiner Vogels
Weiner Vogels
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My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.
Sheila Walsh
Sheila Walsh
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I do not paint nature. I am nature.
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
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I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.
Halsey Call
Halsey Call
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I hit the ball as hard as I can. If I can find it, I hit it again.
John Daly
John Daly
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
Burt Rutan
Burt Rutan
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Go Hard or Go Home, but never go home hard!
Mark McKinnon
Mark McKinnon
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Not the fear of effort but the fear of success explains more than one failure.
Emil M. Cioran
Emil M. Cioran
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If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.
Jennifer Crusie
Jennifer Crusie
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You don't value things that easily come to you. You value things that are hard to get. You keep running after them and complain, "Why are things I desire hard to get?
Unknown
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