Grind Through Adversity Quotes

“Never, never, never give up.”

“A professional is an amateur who did not quit.”

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“Perseverance brings good fortune.”

“It is in times of security that the spirit should be preparing itself for difficult times.”

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out. It's the grain of sand in your shoe.”

“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles 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.”

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.”

“All things are difficult before they are easy.”

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

“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.”

“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”

“Most people give up right before the big break comes, don't let that person be you.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up”

“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.”

“A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.”

“The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.”

“Pity is a paralyzing mental luxury.”

“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.”

“The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.”

“The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.”

“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend feeling sorry for themselves.”

“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”

“He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire, because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.”

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

“Success is a brutal game of survival - only the strong make it”

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.”

“Money grows on the tree of persistence.”

“Success is survival.”

“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.”

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”

“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It's a struggle to save your company's life and your own skin every day of the week.”

“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.”

“The more difficult a victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”

“Recipe for greatness? To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat.”

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.”

“If you don't give up, you still have a chance.”

“We acquire the strength we overcome.”

“If you can't get out of it, get into it.”

“Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life.”

“Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”

“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”

“I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don't.”

“Sunshine all the time makes a desert.”

“We are built to conquer the environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.”

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

“Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.”

“There are two things you can do when you're faced with a challenge. And we're all faced with challenges at a certain point in our life. You can either conquer them or be conquered. I choose to conquer.”

“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping-stone is how high you raise your foot.”

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

“The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try”

“If there were not tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.”

“A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.”

“Stamina is the comfort with being uncomfortable.”

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”

“All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“Persistence beats resistance”

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'”

“Persistence and resilience are key to overcoming challenges and achieving success”

“The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.”

“When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.”

“In trying times, don't quit trying.”

“The good, the painful, it is all a privilege.”

“Today is difficult, tomorrow is much more difficult, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful.”

“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”

“Success is not about perfection; it's about persistence”

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

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

“Dead last finish is greater than did not finish, which trumps did not start.”

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

“Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”

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

“Endurance is patience concentrated.”

“Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears.”

“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”

“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

“We can't control the fact that bad things are going to happen, but it's how we react to them that really matters.”

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

“Your mind will quit a thousand times before your body will.”

“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”

“You do not need another plan. You need a higher pain tolerance. Success isn't for the soft, and it certainly isn't for the impatient.”

“Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried but you've actually been planted.”

“The most persevering becomes the most talented.”

“The only way around is through.”

“Every winner has scars.”

“Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.”

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”

“There is no success without hardship.”

“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”

“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.”

“A man's unique opportunity in life lies in the way in which he bears his burden.”

“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.”

“Big shots are little shots who kept on shooting.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”

“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“You just can't beat the person who never gives up.”

“When you want to build something, something great, it's not easy to do... I don't love every day of my job... You have to suffer, you have to struggle, you have to endeavor, you have to do those hard things and work through it in order to really appreciate what you've done.”

“No matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets, or how far you fall, you are never out of the fight.”

“Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what.”

“Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.”

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”

“Push through the pain and conquer the obstacles. Regardless of what you think today, it won't matter five years from now. So don't be afraid.”

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“Stumbling is not falling.”

“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”

“It's not up to you how you fall. It's up to you how far you let yourself fall and how long it takes you to get back up and stand on your own two feet.”

“If you approach 100 people for seed capital, 99 of them may say no. You just need that one.”

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.”

“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.”

“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.”

“Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.”

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.”

“Strength is the product of struggle.”

“Excellence is the capacity to take pain.”

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.”

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.”

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

“In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.”

“Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.”

“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”

“Mentally strong people don't waste time feeling sorry for themselves.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solved each problem as they came to it. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.”

“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”

“To finish first, you must first finish.”

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress, and it is while Fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence. In days of peace the soldier performs manoeuvres, throws up earthworks with no enemy in sight, and wearies himself by gratuitous toil, in order that he may be equal to unavoidable toil. If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You're right on track.”

“Genius is perseverance in disguise.”

“You're never a quitter until you stop trying.”

“The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.”

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.”

“Everything looks like a failure in the middle.”

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

“Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.”

“Resilience matters in success. Greatness comes from character, and character isn't formed out of smart people: it's formed out of people who have suffered”

“I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance”

“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.”

“Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.”

“If you have tried and met with defeat, just remember that the greatest men in all history were the products of courage, and courage is born in the cradle of adversity.”

“That which does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”

“Success is not the absence of failure, it's persistence through failure.”

“As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated - he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.”

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

“Rejection and perseverance are two very critical ingredients to succeed at literally any goal that you put your mind to.”

“If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.”

“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”

“Never throw in the towel. Use it to wipe off the sweat and keep on going.”

“Rest at the end, not in the middle.”

“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. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

“People with very high expectations have very low resilience—and unfortunately, resilience matters in success.”

“As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business.”

“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”

“You don't have to be the smartest to win. You just have to be the last man standing. Pain tolerance > IQ.”

“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.”

“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”

“If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up and light-heartedly, courageously, good temperedly get ready for the next encounter. This is the only way to take life - this is also playing the game!”

“What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.”

“Fairytales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed.”

“If you can't fly, then run; if you can't run, then walk; if you can't walk, then crawl; but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

“Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.”

“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.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient.”

“It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer.”

“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals.”

“Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.”

“If you don't give up on your dreams, they don't give up on you”

“There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.”

“If you can't, you must. If you must, you can.”

“Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.”

“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”

“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”

“The phoenix must burn to emerge.”

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”

“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”

“The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.”

“Nothing is stronger than a broken man rebuilding himself.”

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

“Refuse to lose. Never ever quit.”

“No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up.”

“Success is not a gift; it's earned through hard work and persistence”

“Success seems to largely be a matter of hanging on after others let go.”

“Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.”

“One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

“Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.”

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.”

“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”

“The best way out is always through.”

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

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

“A man is not finished when he is defeated, he is finished when he quits.”

“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

“What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.”

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”

“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.”

“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”

“Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion and the determination to keep going anyway.”

“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.”