Adversity And Perseverance Quotes:

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

- Christopher Reeve

source: "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Hurdling Obstacles, Overwhelming Force

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Going To College

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

- Sam Ewing

topic: Motivational, Success, Attitude, Good Character, Great Attitude

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Forward In Life, Math Education

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

topic: Life, Spring, Adversity, Spring Awakening, Spring Gardening

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Motivational, Strength, Crazy, Adverse, Strength In Adversity

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Men, Trials, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational Adversity

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Race, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

Just put one foot in front of the other.

- Austin Peck

source: Joe De Sena (2014). “Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

topic: Feet, Marathon Man, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Running, Marching Forward

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

topic: Spring, Winter, Pleasant, March Poems, Spring Awakening

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Adversity, Hurdling Obstacles, Strength In Adversity

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

- Arthur Golden

source: "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

topic: Strength, Success, Encouraging, Memories Of A Geisha, Strong Winds

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

- Scott Hamilton

topic: Encouraging, Perseverance, Self Esteem, Dedication And Perseverance, Adversity And Perseverance

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Confidence, Believe, Persistence, Opposers, Adversity And Perseverance

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Spiritual Strength, Strength And Determination

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

- Scott Hamilton

topic: Perseverance, Adversity, Skating, Adversity And Perseverance

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Loss, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Joe Strummer

topic: Perseverance, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Believe, Miracle, Doe, Believe In Miracles, Adversity And Perseverance

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

topic: Adversity, Doe, Tire, Adversity And Character, Adversity And Perseverance

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Dream, Perseverance, Hard Work, Dedication And Perseverance, Perseverance And Hard Work

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

- James Neil Hollingworth

topic: Courage, Judgement, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Strength, Perserverance, Soul Force

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Life, Depression, Disney Company, Adversity And Perseverance

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mastery, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Adversity

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

- Washington Irving

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom, Disadvantaged, Adversity And Perseverance

Courage is not the absence of fear

- Richard Stengel

topic: Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational Recovery