Overcoming Hardship Quotes

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

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. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

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

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

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

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

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.

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.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

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