Overcoming Adversity Quotes

It's important for me to play women who can overcome adversity, make change, and take control of their lives. I think it's a great time for women in TV and film in general, and I want to help tell these stories.

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Overall the theme is about never giving in... not letting anyone tell you what to do or take anything away from you. Always being yourself, whatever that may be. The content obviously takes a darker and romantic approach to relationships about love and loss, as well as overcoming adversity in everyday life. Generally, just being tough and standing up for what you believe.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

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

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

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

Beautiful people do not just happen

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

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

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.

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

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.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

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

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

It is not the critic who counts

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.