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.

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
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The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
Colin Davis
Colin Davis
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Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.
Ben Gurion
Ben Gurion
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I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again.
Roselyn Sanchez
Roselyn Sanchez
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Ernesto Che Guevara
Ernesto Che Guevara
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It's harder to read code than to write it.
Joel Spolsky
Joel Spolsky
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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley
Bob Marley
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I don't know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the luckier I get.
Ingemar Stenmark
Ingemar Stenmark
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Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.
S Robertson
S Robertson
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There is no way forward that isn't through pain.
Veronica Rossi
Veronica Rossi
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Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.
PROCOPIO
PROCOPIO
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The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.
Jannet Rivera
Jannet Rivera
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It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.
Tom Kite
Tom Kite
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If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
Richard Miller
Richard Miller
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Christina Lauren
Christina Lauren
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When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais
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Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki
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Fight so hard, play so hard, that the result stops mattering.
Acharya Prashant
Acharya Prashant
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
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Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
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Hard work, dedication!
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi
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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb
Maori Proverb
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The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards
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United we stand, divided we fall.
Aesop
Aesop
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Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
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Work hard, have fun and make history.
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
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