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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“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
“I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don't.”
“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
“Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion and the determination to keep going anyway.”
“Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.”
“Dead last finish is greater than did not finish, which trumps did not start.”
“Your mind will quit a thousand times before your body will.”
“Most people give up right before the big break comes, don't let that person be you.”
“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”
“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.”
“The most persevering becomes the most talented.”
“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.”
“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”
“Rejection and perseverance are two very critical ingredients to succeed at literally any goal that you put your mind to.”
“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.”
“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”
“As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business.”
“Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.”
“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.”
“Stamina is the comfort with being uncomfortable.”
“If you approach 100 people for seed capital, 99 of them may say no. You just need that one.”
“Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.”
“Rest at the end, not in the middle.”
“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.”
“Everything looks like a failure in the middle.”
“That which does not kill me makes me stronger.”
“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
“Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.”
“What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.”
“One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”
“We acquire the strength we overcome.”
“He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire, because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.”
“What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.”
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
“Recipe for greatness? To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat.”
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”
“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.”
“If there were not tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.”
“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.”
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”
“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.”
“There is no success without hardship.”
“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.”
“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”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
