Top 93 Quotes About Overcoming Adversity
#1. The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.
Brian Tracy
#2. I come from strong people who believe in the freedom of expression and, of course, a culture that believes in that. So the idea of overcoming adversity is something that is not unfamiliar.
Robert Battle
#3. If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.
Brian McDermott
#4. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
Lou Holtz
#5. We like recovery stories to move quickly through the dark so we can get to the sweeping redemptive ending. I worry that this lack of honest accounts of overcoming adversity has created a Gilded Age of Failure.
Brene Brown
#6. We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life.
In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting, sacrifice, perseverance, teammates, or family.
I guess that's what wrestling is for.
JohnA Passaro
#7. The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.
Sarah MacLean
#8. Nevadans, and all Americans, are resilient. Overcoming adversity is a part of our national heritage.
Brian Sandoval
#9. Overcoming adversity puts you among the bravest, overcoming pain puts you among the strongest; overcoming opponents puts you among the mightiest, but overcoming yourself puts you among the greatest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. Beta Male gene has survived not by meeting and overcoming adversity, but by anticipating and avoiding it.
Christopher Moore
#12. If we know what can happen in a minute will could have avoid all tragedies.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.
Suzanne V. Marshall
#14. The most vibrant of flowers often come from the filthiest of soils.
Zack W. Van
#15. Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.
Tom Althouse
#16. Use what you've been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!
Yvonne Pierre
#17. How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it.
[Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.]
J.R. Richard
#18. The fog may seem thick but the sun will surely pierce through and brighten up the sky. Allow yourself to continue to rest on the wings of God's love and watch yourself learn to soar high.
Kemi Sogunle
#20. When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity.
John C. Maxwell
#21. Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!
Esther Hicks
#22. Our experiences always teach us something. If the experience is "bad", then the lesson is even more powerful and meaningful. Every unfortunate incident makes us stronger and better equipped to handle new challenges.
Miya Yamanouchi
#23. There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.
David O. McKay
#26. We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
Stephen Covey
#27. One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer
#28. You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired.
Ken Field
#29. Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be.
Auliq Ice
#30. I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth-sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting without bitterness those portions we have been afforded the luxury to see.
Chip St. Clair
#31. When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.
T Jay Taylor
#32. I am not perfect and I don't pretend to be. My brand is about dealing with life after it happens and not sugar coating the fact that I'm a human who makes mistakes.
Isha Johnson
#33. Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.
Napoleon Hill
#35. You have to fight the odds in life to be able to reach a greater height.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#37. Your greatest successes come from overcoming your greatest losses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.
Heather Mills
#39. The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.
Christine M. Knight
#41. You do not continue to sit on thorns that continue to prickle you. If the prickling continues, ponder and continue
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#42. To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves - and each other.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#46. The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.
Criss Jami
#47. To give ourselves over to introspection is to build our own private cocoon.
Chip St. Clair
#49. God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#51. I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I've arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone's idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes
I hear angels sing.
Carrie Fisher
#53. No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.
Dana Arcuri
#54. Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#55. If it is going to kill you," Enso Roshi says, "then let it kill you.
T. Scott McLeod
#56. It's not enough to step in front of people's bullets; you have to be bulletproof too. You have to be harder than anything anyone else can throw at you, and sometimes you risk losing yourself just trying to save yourself.
Anthony Breznican
#58. Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.
Marianne Williamson
#59. Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.
Ted Malloch
#60. I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.
Nicole Williams
#62. But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.
Banana Yoshimoto
#64. 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
#65. Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us.
Meg Jay
#66. Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#67. sing so loud that the music
drowns out the sounds of
the naysayers.
one day they'll be singing
your song.
JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon
#68. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
E.B. White
#69. Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#70. If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.
Henry Ford
#71. God's grace grant us immeasurable ability to overcome adversity of any type.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming.
Gibson, Chrissy
#77. You are stronger than your challenges and your challenges are making you stronger.
Karen Salmansohn
#79. We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come.
Dallin H. Oaks
#80. There are uncertainties in life. The development of inner strength is vital for overcoming any adversity.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#83. The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!
Rajneesh
#84. Don't run from your weakness, you will only give it strength.
Stephen Richards
#85. I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.
Nikki Rowe
#88. A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes
Anderson Silva
#89. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
Stephen Covey
#90. The Lord doesn't always make our paths smooth sailing, but He does make it possible to rise above adversity.
Dana Arcuri
#91. Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties ... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
#92. 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
#93. Don't let the situation say stop to your true purpose;say stop to the situation. Situations are situations and you are you
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
