Grind Through Adversity Quotes
Everyone gets knocked down; staying down is the only real defeat. The man who takes one more step, again and again, outlasts problems that break most men. This Resilience path holds history's hardest won quotes on perseverance. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention.”
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
“To finish first, you must first finish.”
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
“Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.”
“Every winner has scars.”
“The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.”
“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
“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.”
“Success is survival.”
“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war”
“Success is a brutal game of survival - only the strong make it”
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
“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 harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.”
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
“Perseverance brings good fortune.”
“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.”
“Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears.”
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
“Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
“Pity is a paralyzing mental luxury.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
“The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.”
“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping-stone is how high you raise your foot.”
“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.”
“If you can't get out of it, get into it.”
“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out. It's the grain of sand in your shoe.”
“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.”
“Endurance is patience concentrated.”
“The only way around is through.”
“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend feeling sorry for themselves.”
