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.

Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.
Cesc Fabregas
Cesc Fabregas
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A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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There is always something to do. You just need to look harder, be creative and a little flexible.
Peter Cundall
Peter Cundall
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God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.
Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman
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But it's so hard to make things simple and so easy to make them complicated.
Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson
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Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail.
Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson
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In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success - if you are willing to learn from it.
Paul Alan
Paul Alan
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A church without the broken is a broken church.
Ed Stetzer
Ed Stetzer
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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth
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If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper
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It's not recovery that is painful; our resistance to it is what hurts.
Narcotics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous
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Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.
Anna Maria Chavez
Anna Maria Chavez
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Abide with me: fast falls the eventide: The darkness deepens: Lord, with me abide.
Henry Francis Lyte
Henry Francis Lyte
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The chain is only as strong as its weakest link, for if that fails the chain fails and the object that it has been holding up falls to the ground.
Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid
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Someone else's success is not your failure.
Jim Parsons
Jim Parsons
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My mood altered and the pain turned to rage.
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon
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Your colleagues are not your friends; Your boss is not your enemy; Your subordinate is not a fool; Your office is not your house; Your house is not your office; Do not expect rewards to work hard. It is the other way around.
Unknown
Unknown
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There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ
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All broken things can be fixed. The hard part is deciding that they're worth fixing.
Jennifer Horstmann
Jennifer Horstmann
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If I have to make a tackle then I have already made a mistake.
Paolo Maldini
Paolo Maldini
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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
Harold J. Smith
Harold J. Smith
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Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Susy Kassem
Susy Kassem
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Use soft words in hard arguments.
Henry George Bohn
Henry George Bohn
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison
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If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.
Adam Osborne
Adam Osborne
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Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best.
Mark Krieger
Mark Krieger
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I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult. God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.
Andy Griffith
Andy Griffith
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There's no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.
Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark
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Failure is not the opposite of success – it's a part of it.
William Ritter
William Ritter
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I learn things late-and only the hard way.
James Ellroy
James Ellroy
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The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted.
Carrie Jones
Carrie Jones
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Jean Genet
Jean Genet
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The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner
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Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore Roosevelt Van
Theodore Roosevelt Van
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
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Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.
Mike Norton
Mike Norton
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When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbors, because in them we serve Jesus.
Rose of Lima
Rose of Lima
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The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
Steve Furtick
Steve Furtick
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With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
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I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
Bernard Moitessier
Bernard Moitessier
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It is easy to make things hard, but hard to make them easy.
Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom
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Be kind to one another, because most of us are fighting a hard battle.
Ian Maclaren
Ian Maclaren
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A mistake repeated more than once is a decision. - Paulo Coelho.
Unknown
Unknown
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When you buy into short-term pleasure, you are investing in long-term pain.
Scott Allan
Scott Allan
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I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.
Drake
Drake
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
Frances Chan
Frances Chan
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