60 adversity phrases to encourage you to overcome them

Adversity is a stepping stone to maturity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Don’t get carried away by discouragement and never allow an obstacle to stop you from achieving success.

The best that life has to give us is often hidden behind a great difficulty.

There are two powerful destroyers: time and adversity.

Alfred de Musset

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth could be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney

Adversity awakens in us capacities that, under favorable circumstances, would have remained dormant.

Horatio

The greater the difficulty, the greater the merit in overcoming it.

Henry Ward Beecher

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience, but how he holds up in times of controversy and challenge.

Martin Luther King

Adversity restores to men all the virtues that prosperity takes away from them.

Eugène Delacroix

Every tear teaches us a truth.

Ugo Foscolo

The probation comes, not only to test our worth, but to increase it; the oak is not only tested, but hardened by storms.

Lettie Cowman

Difficulties should be used to grow, not to discourage. The human spirit grows stronger in the conflict.

William Ellery Channing

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Adversity makes men neither better nor worse. They just reveal to us what they are.

Patience and perseverance have the magical effect of making difficulties disappear and obstacles disappear.

John Quincy Adams

In the midst of any difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

The great navigators owe their reputation to storms and storms.

epicurus

May the defeats of life not be a reason for sadness. Fight, today and always, because only then will you be a winner.

The art of winning is learned in defeats.

Simon Bolivar

The greater the difficulties to be overcome, the greater the satisfaction.

cicero

Don’t lose motivation just because things aren’t going as planned. Adversity breeds wisdom and that is what will lead you to success.

Adversities form the essence of wisdom and fuel for the soul.

Ivan Teorilang

Overcome every difficulty in your life with a good dose of faith combined with great determination.

Somehow, every day someone knocks on our door and invites us to give up.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Many men owe the greatness of their lives to the obstacles they had to overcome.

Charles H. Spurgeon

It doesn’t matter how much adversity you have ahead of you, they won’t change your course if you have the right determination.

Whoever wants to overcome an obstacle must arm himself with the strength of the lion and the prudence of the serpent.

pindar

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord Byron

Do not be discouraged or frightened by adversity, for it exists only to be overcome, improved and perfected.

Ivan Teorilang

Obstacles will seem big or small to you depending on how big or small you are.

Orison Swett Marden

Never give up because you encountered an obstacle! Challenges are the spice of life!

Men only consider useful that which offers difficulty. Ease fills them with suspicion.

Michel de Montaigne

You cannot define how many problems you will have in your life, but you can choose to overcome them and work every day towards them.

Difficulties and obstacles are valuable sources of health and strength for any society.

Albert Einstein

I thank you for all the obstacles God puts in my path. In times of difficulty, I may not understand, but when I reach the top of the mountain, I recognize in the landscape the lesson He taught me.

Not having some of the things we desire is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Our friends know us in prosperity. We know our friends in adversity.

John Collins

We only know our true strength when we encounter obstacles and difficulties in life that match it.

Adversity is sometimes very hard for a man to bear; but for every man who endures prosperity, there are a hundred who will endure adversity.

Elvis Presley

If you find a path without obstacles, it probably leads nowhere.

Frank Clark

The size of the joy when overcoming an adversity is directly proportional to the height of the obstacle that was overcome.

Obstacles cannot stop you. Problems cannot stop you. More than anything, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop yourself.

Jeffrey Gitomer

The man that pain has not educated will always be a child.

Niccolò Tommaseo

In adversity, the greatest consolation is the awareness of good deeds.

cicero

Sometimes, it is necessary to go through certain difficulties so that we can face with more strength what will come ahead!

Difficulties are the structural steel that goes into character building.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

Who has never faced difficulty, does not know the taste of victory. You won’t see any kind of difficulty in front of you if you keep your eyes focused on the goals you really want to achieve!

Most men are capable of enduring adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

The secret is to keep a smile on your face and face each adversity with due determination.

Don’t give up now, because the path that leads to success has several stages and includes some obstacles!

The fear of misfortune is worse than misfortune.

Leib Lazarov

Prosperity readily discovers vice. But adversity soon discovers virtue.

Francis Bacon

I won’t back down because life puts obstacles in my way, because every time I overcome, one I will get closer to triumph!

If you don’t learn to laugh at difficulties, you won’t have anything to laugh about when you’re old.

Edgar Watson Howe

There is no victory without a battle, and the greater the objective, the greater the obstacles to be overcome.

It is in the moments of greatest difficulty that we realize the degree of loyalty of the friends around us.

Prosperity is not without many fears and displeasures, and adversity is not without comfort and hope.

Francis Bacon

It doesn’t matter if the difficulty is too great, what matters is the determination to be even greater.