Adversity Quotes

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to the happiness you could have."

- Matsumoto Rangiku

"Being lonely is more painful than getting hurt."

- Monkey D. Luffy

"Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?"

- Juuzou Suzuya

"When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."

- Katharine Hepburn

"A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction."

- Justin Sewell

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and beautiful of all."

- The Emperor Of China

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

- Peter Marshall

"Romantic love is painful."

- will.i.am

"Roses fall, but the thorns remain."

- Dutch Proverb

"A rose, isn’t quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you."

- Anthony Liccione

"Life is like a rose; beautiful yet full of thorns."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth."

- Marianne Williamson

"Change and growth is so painful. But it’s so necessary for us to evolve."

- Sarah McLachlan

"Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong."

- Charles H. Spurgeon

"Without the dark, there isn’t light. Without the pain, there is no relief."

- Jenny Lawson

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender."

- Tupac Shakur

"Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes."

- Tupac Shakur

"It's only now that I understand the depth of the depravity of this creature, this monster that I unwillingly helped to create. As if what he had already done wasn't enough, he found a new way to desecrate, to humiliate, to destroy. As if the suffering wasn't enough. The loss of innocence, the loss of everything to so many people. Small souls trapped in prisons of my making, now set to new purpose, and used in ways I never thought imaginable."

- Cassette Man

"The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses."

- Ovid

"Las dificultades preparan a personas comunes para destinos extraordinarios."

- C.S. Lewis

"First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes a man."