Top 200 Adversity Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

52. “Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”

— Marcus Aurelius

53. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

— Winston Churchill

54. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

— Winston Churchill

55. “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

56. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

— Frida Kahlo

57. “As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”

— Chanakya

58. “Real integrity stays in place whether the test is in adversity or prosperity.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

59. “You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.”

— Robin Williams

60. “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. ”

— B. F. Skinner

61. “I love those who can smile in trouble...”

— Leonardo da Vinci

62. “You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.”

— Henry Ford

63. “Failure is an option. It’s what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can’t sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.”

— David Goggins

64. “By endurance we conquer.”

— Ernest Shackleton

65. “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

— C. S. Lewis

66. “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!”

— Rudyard Kipling

67. “Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow.”

— Tony Robbins

68. “I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.”

— Bear Grylls

69. “It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”

— A.W. Tozer

70. “Life is not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the trap of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not.”

— Matthew McConaughey

71. “Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

72. “Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”

— Maya Angelou

73. “Every setback is a setup for a comeback!”

— Joel Osteen

74. “Mental toughness and resilience fade if they aren’t used consistently. I say it all the time: you are either getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.”

— David Goggins

75. “As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

76. “Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

77. “That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: “Good.”

— Jocko Willink

78. “God will make a way, where there seems to be no way. He works in ways we cannot see.”

— Don Moen

79. “When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

80. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

— Maya Angelou

81. “Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.”

— Rick Warren

82. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

— C.G. Jung

83. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou

84. “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”

— Jewish Proverb

85. “Life had to break you down so you could be rebuilt better.”

— Robin S. Sharma

86. “She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

87. “The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”

— Bruce D. Perry

88. “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”

— Aeschylus

89. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

90. “In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.”

— Corrie ten Boom

91. “Recycle your pain, allow your pain to teach you to greatness...”

— Eric Thomas

92. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”

— Steve Maraboli

93. “If I fail, I try again, and again, and again.”

— Nick Vujicic

94. “You have to go through the worst to get to the best.”

— Anonymous

95. “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”

— Oprah Winfrey

96. “What hurts us is what heals us.”

— Paulo Coelho

97. “Every time I’ve failed, people have had me out for the count, but I always come back.”

— Sylvester Stallone

98. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”

— Rumi

99. “No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.”

— Epictetus

100. “Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!”

— Barack Obama