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.

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
Chester Barnard
Chester Barnard
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I discovered that when we suffer, we suffer as equals and in their capacity to suffer, a dog is a pig, is a bear, is a boy.
Philip Wollen
Philip Wollen
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What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
Unknown
Unknown
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Sometimes life becomes a bit difficult. There are hard times and even some little things can mess up your life. Make the best out of these moments. Don't forget to smile. You can cry as loud as you want, but smile. Just stand up and go on. You can do everything you want.
Skyz
Skyz
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People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies.
Kathleen Glasgow
Kathleen Glasgow
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The mistake most of us make in our crucial conversations is we believe that we have to choose between telling the truth and keeping a friend.
Kerry Patterson
Kerry Patterson
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
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Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.
Lewis Black
Lewis Black
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There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will.
George W. Truett
George W. Truett
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I set out to work hard, not to get rich.
Chuck Feeney
Chuck Feeney
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Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah.
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
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The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich
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Work Hard, Enjoy what you do and be good to other human beings, we all equal, Being a good persons whats make you special.
Jay Park
Jay Park
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Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent; it is the essence of learning.
Dr. Brett Watson
Dr. Brett Watson
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Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
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Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.
Marcus Thoma
Marcus Thoma
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The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.
Anthony Stafford Beer
Anthony Stafford Beer
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Sometimes the hardest things are the ones most worth doing.
Jennifer E. Smith
Jennifer E. Smith
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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let 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.
Unknown
Unknown
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It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. What scares you is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.
Guillermo Musso
Guillermo Musso
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It's only pain, it will not hurt you.
Bas Rutten
Bas Rutten
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Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.
Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Grotowski
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Photography is the story I fail to put into words.
Destin Sparks
Destin Sparks
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This is what I believe to be true. You have to do everything you can. You have to work your hardest. And if you do, if you stay positive, then you have a shot at a silver lining.
Gusley Cooper
Gusley Cooper
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The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
Bill Cowher
Bill Cowher
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Testing proves a programmer's failure. Debugging is the programmer's vindication.
Bruce Becker
Bruce Becker
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It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
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Sometimes God calms the storm and sometimes He calms his child.
John H. Grosberg
John H. Grosberg
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WORK HARD.
PLAY HARD.
PLAY HARD.
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The first step is the hardest.
Marie Anne de Vichy
Marie Anne de Vichy
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People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions, and help them throw rocks at their enemies.
Bruce Wein
Bruce Wein
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We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult
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Everything that happens helps you grow, even if it's hard to see right now.
Austin Mahone
Austin Mahone
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Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.
Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov
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My pain is my badge of honor.
Ray Lewis
Ray Lewis
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We all make mistakes. It's how we come back from the mistakes that matters.
Tom Welling
Tom Welling
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If it's not tested, it's broken.
Bruce Eckel
Bruce Eckel
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Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!
Wellkwu
Wellkwu
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When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin
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The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven-Goran Eriksson
Sven-Goran Eriksson
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If you try to do your best there is no failure.
Mike Farrell
Mike Farrell
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For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
Charlotte Whitton
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Respond from the center of the hurricane, rather than reacting from the chaos of the storm.
George Mumford
George Mumford
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If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
Frank Lane
Frank Lane
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Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.
Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie
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It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit.
Tonya Hobbs
Tonya Hobbs
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