Top 200 Adversity Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You’ve got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but you’ve got to believe that God has a reason for it and he’s going to make everything good.”

— Joel Osteen

102. “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

— Fred Rogers

103. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ”

— Vince Lombardi

104. “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

— Winston Churchill

105. “There’s a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.”

— Marcus Luttrell

106. “If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

107. “Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”

— Ram Dass

108. “I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.”

— C. S. Lewis

109. “I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.”

— Andrew Jackson

110. “Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

111. “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

— Abraham Lincoln

112. “If you can make it through the night, there’s a brighter day.”

— Tupac Shakur

113. “The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.”

— Ryan Holiday

114. “We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger.”

— Barack Obama

115. “Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”

— Maggie Kuhn

116. “It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God’s greatest gifts are given.”

— Wintley Phipps

117. “Don’t just go through it; grow through it.”

— Joel Osteen

118. “If you don’t fall, how are you going to know what getting up is like?”

— Stephen Curry

119. “Let God’s promises shine on your problems.”

— Corrie ten Boom

120. “God will always make a way where there is no way.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

121. “Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self – his true, inner self – through temporary defeat.”

— Napoleon Hill

122. “Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.”

— Bethany Hamilton

123. “If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.”

— Napoleon Hill

124. “We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”

— Epictetus

125. “Don’t be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the ‘Kite’ of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.”

— Napoleon Hill

126. “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”

— Victor Hugo

127. “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

128. “No one’s life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it’s this adversity – and more specifically our resilience – that makes us strong and successful.”

— Tony Robbins

129. “You have to stay strong when it gets tough.”

— Demi Lovato

130. “I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.”

— Napoleon Hill

131. “Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we’re made for, and what we’re responsible to give back to life.”

— Tony Robbins

132. “Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.”

— Epictetus

133. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

134. “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.”

— Andy Grove

135. “Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.”

— Nick Vujicic

136. “Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

137. “Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

— Alexandre Dumas

138. “There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”

— Malcolm X

139. “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

140. “Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.”

— Napoleon Hill

141. “Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.”

— Napoleon Hill

142. “Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.”

— Les Brown

143. “It’s just me against the world.”

— Tupac Shakur

144. “Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.”

— John C. Maxwell

145. “In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

— Francis Bacon

146. “When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

147. “There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

148. “The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

149. “Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.”

— Abdul Kalam

150. “Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.”

— Joyce Meyer