Top 100 Face Adversity Quotes
#1. The man of courage is not the man who did not face adversity. The man of courage is the man who faced adversity and spoke to it. The man of courage tells adversity, "You're trespassing and I give you no authority to steal my joy, my faith or my hope.
Kiese Laymon
#2. People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.
John C. Maxwell
#3. For those who dare to dream, embrace their nightmares and face adversity.
Jalissa Pastorius
#4. Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
Horace
#5. When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.
Joel Osteen
#6. You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too seriously, and you can't use things as an excuse or you'll never get through.
Kristine Lilly
#7. In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage. For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong.
Xenophon
#8. You can't have all the answers now or you could never grow from making a choice. If you want to grow, you must face adversity and make decisions without having all the answers.
Eric Buffington
#9. My friends, we should consider ourselves fortunate, not because we are any greater or lesser because we face adversity, rather we simply rejoice in the opportunity to face it.
Michael Joling
#10. If we are right with the Lord, then, as we face adversity, we can be assured that we will be blessed with faith, strength, wisdom and help from others, not only to overcome, but to learn and to grow from those experiences.
Ronald E. Poelman
#11. We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.
Steve Gleason
#12. Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.
Conor McGregor
#13. You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.
Mr. T
#14. Christians don't face adversity by stoically decreasing our love for the people and things of this world so much as by increasing our love and joy in God.
Timothy J. Keller
#15. Grace is that ability; to face adversity and be at ease, to enter into the suffering world and help others without losing yourself in the process. It is to be true to your most essential nature, and produce something good from that. To have grace is as close as we may come to perfection.
Christopher Daniel Mechling
#16. Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.
John Ashcroft
#17. The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
Joshua Waitzkin
#18. Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
Steven Pressfield
#19. Consider what really makes up your self-worth - like your caring heart or your ability to stand tall in the face of adversity
Susan Bernstein
#20. Be "that person" with grit. Remain dedicated, determined and strong in the face of adversity!
Jerry Gladstone
#21. Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.
Richard Davidson
#22. Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.
Michael Arndt
#23. Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
Brad Henry
#24. A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.
Joan Z. Borysenko
#25. It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.
Oliver Sacks
#26. It is easy to climb the ladder of success if one is working on issues and aeas which are not frequented by the masses, provided one is ready to face challenges.
Vishwas Chavan
#28. A person who smiles in the face of adversity ... probably has a scapegoat.
Stephen Hawking
#29. Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
Confucius
#30. Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
Silvia Cartwright
#31. She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.
Dean Koontz
#32. For a West Point graduate to abandon his appointed task in the face of adversity or personal discomfort was all but inconceivable.
David McCullough
#33. I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.
Samuel Rutherford
#34. Smile in the face of adversity, be contemptuous of danger, undaunted in defeat and magnanimous in victory.
Sumitro Djojohadikusumo
#35. The only difference between someone who folds in the face of adversity and someone who doesn't, is if the person interprets the challenges they face as either threats, or opportunities. Help
The Mindset Warrior
#36. Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
Marianne Williamson
#37. If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.
William J. Clinton
#38. Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.
David A. Bednar
#39. Faith is tested in the face of adversity
Dune Elliot
#40. Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity.
Carlos Wallace
#41. A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.
John Cena
#42. Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.
Giorgio Armani
#43. A face shaped by both love and adversity. But where neither held sway. They were balanced, point to point.
Cameron Dokey
#44. Rose spoke up softly beside me. 'It's how you handle the unfairness of life -that's what matters, I think.'...In this city of imprisonment, I had seen faith and optimism, strength and fortitude in the face of adversity.
Ann Howard Creel
#45. Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges
battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.
Billy Graham
#46. In the face of adversity you have three choices ... You can let it DEFINE you, let it DESTROY you or let it STRENGTHEN YOU!
Tanya Masse
#47. If our team doesn't face enough adversity early on in a season, I create it. Nothing builds a team like adversity.
Mike Tomlin
#49. One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.
Reggie White
#50. In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.
Christopher Reeve
#51. Let's face it, we're all imperfect and we're going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.
John Wooden
#52. When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity.
John C. Maxwell
#53. What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.
Ian Usher
#54. Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#55. If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.
Nathaniel Branden
#56. You got to face your evil, Hoodoo," Zeke said. "If people don't face the danger that's seeking them, evil will find them first.
Ronald L. Smith
#57. I'm able to make decisions even in the face of adversity.
Nikki Sixx
#58. The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity.
Thomas Aquinas
#59. The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
Marian Wright Edelman
#60. The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
Wynton Marsalis
#61. Even in the face of certain adversity, a true lady always makes a graceful exit.
Jessica Jefferson
#62. Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
Catherine Marshall
#63. Greatness is what remains when that talent and vision meet adversity - and persist in the face of it.
Lewis Howes
#64. Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity' ... Disability is an art. it's an ingenious way to live.
Neil Marcus
#66. In the face of adversity I shall not weaver because the LORD our GOD is always by my side.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#67. Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Zig Ziglar
#68. I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.
Asif Ali Zardari
#69. Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.
Max Anders
#70. Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.
Jack Newfield
#71. As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.
Steven Seagal
#72. To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.
Kin F. Kam
#73. His strategy of flying boldly into the face of adversity was studied and taught, and during the Clone Wars would come to be known as the Tarkin Rush,
James Luceno
#74. If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
Boyd K. Packer
#75. My secret to survival has been embracing life's challenges and not letting them dictate my frame of mind or determine my fate ... Learning to stand strong in the face of challenge and adversity is the only way to get through the tough times.
Sandra Lee
#76. Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity. No?
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#77. On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.
David Sedaris
#78. We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
#79. In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.
Sarah Wilson
#80. Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.
Cathy Lamb
#81. You must laugh in the face of adversity. In the end, humor is the greatest weapon against the pain. The
K. Hollan Van Zandt
#82. I respect you far too much to think that empty pride is the only motivator you could call on. I think what you call pride is something much more than that. Belief in yourselves, perhaps, or perseverance in the face of adversity. Those are things to be proud of. That's not the same as being proud.
Jack Campbell
#83. You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.
Hal Borland
#84. The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg
#85. Love finds you when you least expect it. Under seemingly impossible circumstances, but it was there. Young and blooming still. Unwavering and constant. Love truly did conquer all. Love required trust, unconditional faith in the face of adversity.
Maya Banks
#86. Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.
Oprah Winfrey
#87. I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.
Stevie Nicks
#88. In time of poverty, you alone face is your fate. If your spirit is stronger enough, you will survive.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#89. Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.
Christine Lagarde
#90. No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.
Brooke Ellison
#91. Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.
Massimo Marino
#93. Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come.
Kemi Sogunle
#94. I attribute my success to my deep driving desire and persistence to face the tremendous adversity.
Debasish Mridha
#95. To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.
Thomas S. Monson
#96. Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity.
Tony Dovale
#97. Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
Arthur Ashe
#98. You are a winner when you have the courage to face the adversity and endure the difficulties.
Debasish Mridha
#99. No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.
E.W. Howe
#100. We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.
Paulo Coelho
