100 quotes about finding strength in adversity, offering wisdom and inspiration to help us navigate life's toughest moments.

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Adversity is an inevitable part of life, testing our resilience, patience, and inner strength. While challenges can be daunting, they also offer opportunities for growth and self-discovery. Through the words of others who have faced and overcome their own struggles, we find encouragement and the strength to persevere. Here are 100 quotes about finding strength in adversity, offering wisdom and inspiration to help us navigate life's toughest moments.

1. "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." – Confucius

2. "Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased." – Joel Osteen

3. "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." – Ernest Hemingway

4. "Out of difficulties grow miracles." – Jean de La Bruyère

5. "In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer." – Albert Camus

6. "Tough times never last, but tough people do." – Robert H. Schuller

7. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." – Margaret Thatcher

8. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." – Mahatma Gandhi

9. "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." – Seneca

10. "You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice." – Bob Marley

11. "We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." – Kenji Miyazawa

12. "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." – Molière

13. "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." – C.S. Lewis

14. "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." – Sir Edmund Hillary

15. "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." – William Arthur Ward

16. "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

17. "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." – Albert Camus

18. "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling

19. "Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater." – William Hazlitt

20. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." – Henry Ford

21. "Adversity introduces a man to himself." – Albert Einstein

22. "The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived." – Robert Jordan

23. "Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." – Robert H. Schuller

24. "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." – Napoleon Hill

25. "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." – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

26. "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche

27. "Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." – Martha Graham

28. "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." – Napoleon Hill

29. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey

31. "Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli

32. "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." – Helen Keller

33. "The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity." – Seneca

34. "We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity." – Barbara De Angelis

35. "When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about." – Haruki Murakami

36. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill

37. "Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength." – Napoleon Bonaparte

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

39. "The greater the storm, the brighter your rainbow." – Anonymous

40. "If you’re going through hell, keep going." – Winston Churchill

41. "It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi

42. "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." – Thomas Paine

43. "Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths." – Drew Barrymore

44. "No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength – if we have the virtue of resilience." – Eric Greitens

45. "Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times; they can only make you stronger." – Anonymous

46. "The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance." – Jodi Picoult

47. "Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems." – Gever Tulley

48. "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere." – Frank A. Clark

49. "Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before." – Elizabeth Edwards

50. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." – Albert Einstein

51. "Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." – Bruce Lee

52. "Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." – William Ellery Channing

53. "There is no education like adversity." – Benjamin Disraeli

54. "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." – A.A. Milne

55. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Nelson Mandela

56. "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." – Malcolm X

57. "Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement." – Albert Camus

58. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." – Eleanor Roosevelt

59. "The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about." – Anonymous

60. "Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." – Richard Branson

61. "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." – Christopher Reeve

62. "It always seems impossible until it’s done." – Nelson Mandela

63. "We acquire the strength we have overcome." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

64. "Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful." – Zig Ziglar

65. "If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." – H.G. Wells

66. "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." – Joseph Kennedy

67. "Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." – Horace

68. "In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive." – Lee Iacocca

69. "Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." – Lance Armstrong

70. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." – Henry Ford

71. "Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" – Mary Anne Radmacher

72. "When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top." – Anonymous

73. "Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." – Arthur Golden

74. "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths." – Arnold Schwarzenegger

75. "It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop." – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

76. "Adversity is a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it." – Anonymous

77. "Adversity is the first path to truth." – Lord Byron

78. "In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we’re made of." – Howard Schultz

79. "The depth of your struggle will determine the height of your success." – Anonymous

80. "Adversity is a great teacher, but

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