Top 200 Adversity Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.”

— Dhirubhai Ambani

152. “Much of your pain is self-chosen.”

— Khalil Gibran

153. “Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.”

— Conor McGregor

154. “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

155. “Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”

— Harper Lee

156. “There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.”

— Rumi

157. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

158. “I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life – it’s possible.”

— Les Brown

159. “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

160. “Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you’re feeling sorry for yourself because you’re faced with adversity.”

— John Wooden

161. “Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.”

— Winston Churchill

162. “With every adversity and trial comes the opportunity to grow stronger and learn from your circumstance.”

— O. J. Brigance

163. “Out of adversity comes opportunity.”

— Benjamin Franklin

164. “No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.”

— Seneca the Younger

165. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”

— Tony Robbins

166. “It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

— Charles Dickens

167. “Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”

— Robertson Davies

168. “You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth and strength. It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

169. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

170. “Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

171. “You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.”

— Paulo Coelho

172. “What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

173. “Real champions fight through adversity.”

— Conor McGregor

174. “I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”

— Helen Keller

175. “Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity.”

— Robin S. Sharma

176. “Adversity doesn’t build character; it reveals it.”

— Unknown

177. “I never feel more alive than when I’m in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!”

— Dean Karnazes

178. “We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.”

— Frank A. Clark

179. “Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.”

— Rose Kennedy

180. “Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.”

— Abu Bakr

181. “Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

182. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”

— Walt Disney

183. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

— Elon Musk

184. “Adversity is preparation for greatness.”

— Andy Andrews

185. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”

— Japanese Proverb

186. “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

187. “Don’t give up just because of what someone said. Use it as motivation to push harder.”

— Zig Ziglar

188. “Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.”

— Seneca the Younger

189. “Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.”

— Marianne Williamson

190. “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”

— Helen Keller

191. “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

192. “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”

— Seneca

193. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

194. “Don’t judge the future of a person based on his present condition, because time has the power to change black coal into a shiny diamond.”

— Chanakya

195. “The best revenge is massive success.”

— Frank Sinatra

196. “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.”

— Mario Fernández

197. “To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.”

— Frank Herbert

198. “In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of.”

— Howard Schultz

199. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

— Abraham Lincoln

200. “Hardships make or break people.”

— Margaret Mitchell