Top 100 Through Adversity Quotes
#1. Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset.
Jared Brock
#2. Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice
Maryam Jameelah
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. Like words written in the sand taken away by waves
Thousands of years of culture discovered in lost caves
Climbing to a mountain at it's highest peak
Out of no where strength when thought down and weak
Justin Bienvenue
#7. Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.
Stephen Baxter
#8. Beneath this warm flesh beats the heart of a compassionate man, one who's fought his whole life to fulfill his people's dream. Just because you feel the need to lean on someone, to accept someone else's strength for a little while doesn't make you weak.
Kylie Griffin
#10. Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#11. I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
Harmon Killebrew
#12. Often what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place.
Karen Salmansohn
#13. What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.
David S. Baxter
#14. We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe.
John Green
#15. We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#16. Dig deep to finish what you start. Because no matter how hard it feels to push through adversity at the time, once your done, you'll own the experience for the rest of your life.
Aaron Lauritsen
#17. Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk directly through adversity with love and ardent resolve.
Daniel Gillies
#18. Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
Charles Stanley
#20. I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.
Donald Trump
#21. One's character is determined not how she gets caught in the downpour of disappointment, but how she finds the hope to look for the rainbow.
Colette Freedman
#22. I could stand alone because I knew I was not alone.
Emma Raveling
#23. Ad astra per aspera, to the stars through adversity
Morgan Matson
#24. 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
#25. Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#26. The dark times are there for you to grow and to create a dependency on God. This is all part of your sanctification process.
Michael Barbarulo
#27. At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
Hannah Storm
#29. Adversity could be ignored but compassion slipped easily through
C. Marten-Zerf
#30. You must remember that you are not what you are going through, but what you have come through. Your adversity is unique because God has entrusted to you a measure of adversity that only you can handle.
Rickie Rush
#31. Character is not measured by moments of success; it is measured by the grace in which you move through adversity. ~ Stefan Nelek
Jennifer Turner
#32. But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us," I said.
"We know us," said Mother. "They're wrong. And don't ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?
Ruta Sepetys
#33. Don't ever
let Them tell you
you are
too broken
to bloom
Nadia Hasan
#34. A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
#35. We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.
Bilal Tanweer
#36. Jesus has prayed over us that our faith in Him will not fail but rather be strengthened by the process we go through.
E'yen A. Gardner
#37. That which does not kill us makes us stronger," Jesse deadpans.
"Exactly. Exactly."
Self-improvement through adversity... it isn't bullshit. Exhibit A: my little brother. I can see every muscle in his stomach and shoulders.
Hannah Moskowitz
#38. An argument must have opposition if it is to prove itself, my son," she said. "One who argues truly learns the depth of his commitment through adversity. Did you not learn that trees grow roots most strongly when winds blow through them?
Robert Jordan
#39. She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.
Nikki Rowe
#40. Lay a golden egg.
After you built a nest,
You wait for a leg.
And you land next.
Now you hope and pray.
Expect for the best.
Go on with no delay.
Get it right at last.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#41. Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
Lou Holtz
#42. I once made a solemn vow that I could not keep... I am from this world. Even with all its failures and suffering it is still worthy of my best efforts... and wishing it was otherwise does not make it so." Eiij'lam told the king.
K. Farrell St. Germain
#43. Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
Arthur Golden
#44. Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.
Nancy Farmer
#45. Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#46. We all have weakness and strength. I have to fight against the weakness in my personality. Everyone of should fight against the weakness of the soul. Seek to build on your strengths.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#47. Failing well - that is, staying calm through adversity and recognizing what can be learned from mistakes - is a foundation of success in a variety of fields.
Todd Rose
#48. Don't let what's happened spoil your life; it doesn't have to. If help is offered, take it if you want it. But in the end, find the strength to take hold of your own life and make what you want of it. Even the bad dreams fade in time.
P.D. James
#49. Ad astra per aspera. It's the Kansas state motto," he said to Roger and me, "To the stars through adversity
Morgan Matson
#50. Live real strong in union with Christ".
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#51. Jesus is the light of the world. His light shines through all darkness. His love heals all hatred. His grace and mercy forgives all sins. The anointing of his blood heals the sick and the lame. His guarding angels will forever protect you and his word will forever guide you.
Colishia S. Benjamin
#53. The more one tries to make me weak the stronger I become.
Amit Abraham
#54. Adversity had not only ruined him, it had frightened him, and he was evidently going through his remnant of life on tiptoe, for fear of waking up the hostile fates.
Henry James
#55. Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous
Soroosh Shahrivar
#57. I must rule with eye and claw - as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides
Frank Herbert
#58. I was like a bird, my wings once carried on a wind of lies. I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind
Amy Tan
#59. Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way.
Tom Althouse
#60. A lion walks alone. He does not need a pack of wolves to follow him.
Amit Abraham
#61. It will always hurt to be laughed at, snubbed, ignored or attacked by others. But I would remind you that the human personality grows through adversity, provided it is not crushed in the process.
James Dobson
#62. the key channel through which early adversity causes damage to developing bodies and brains is stress.
Paul Tough
#63. 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
#65. Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.
Nicolas G. Janovsky
#66. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Margot Asquith
#67. What is a good man if not one who does not believe in himself to the exclusion of others? ... He was asked to bear what cannot be borne--what should not be borne. I hope never to be so tested, for I have it on the best authority that I will not bear it.
Norman Lock
#69. Darkness does not leave without the light to chase it away. You need to have spiritual strength to pull you through the rough times.
Keith Shaver
#70. 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
#71. And so, she turned her back on the abyss for another day.
Megan Kennedy
#72. I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.
Christie Brinkley
#73. I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.
Joe Tye
#74. 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
#75. Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.
Aristotle.
#76. The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.
Joseph Addison
#77. Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.
Gary Hopkins
#78. When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.
Criss Jami
#79. You find yourself through adversity.... The things that hurt us most today make us stronger tomorrow.
Ronald Pratt
#80. An open mind, is the best weapon, in the fight between light and darkness
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#81. If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.
Rufus Jones
#82. Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.
Betty Smith
#83. For most people, going through adversity tends to reveal character rather than build it.
David Chill
#84. If you can't live through adversity, you'll never be good at what you do. You have to live through the unfair things, and you have to develop the hide to not let it bother you and keep your eyes focused on what you have to do.
Maurice R. Greenberg
#85. Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road.
Patience Strong
#86. We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.
Viktor E. Frankl
#87. I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.
Rajon Rondo
#88. While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.
Ezra Taft Benson
#89. My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry.
Siri Hustvedt
#90. For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.
Lori Wilde
#92. The successful have the courage to walk each day toward something;only after coming through something.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#93. For every remote miss who becomes stronger, there are countless near misses who are crushed by what they have been through. There are times and places, however, when all of us depend on people who have been hardened by their experiences.
Malcolm Gladwell
#94. I believe it's a privilege, madam. One that's earned through a certain amount of courage and adversity.
Kathleen Tessaro
#95. We can be at peace through the realization that the adversity is beneficial to act as the genuine demand for wisdom and spiritual power.
Ra Un Nefer Amen
#96. The sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
L.M. Montgomery
#97. I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time my father lost his temper, right under her heart. Feeling the stone in her calmed me down. It told me that she would always be there for me.
Kaimana Wolff
#98. Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.
Spencer W. Kimball
#100. Having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.
Charles Bukowski
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