Our quotes about courage and adversity belong to a larger section on the site named “Courage Quotes”. You can find out more information about that section, including further links to quotes similar to the ones below, by clicking here
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert
The only way to do it is to do it.
Amelia Earhart
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.
Brené Brown
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Note: Each quote and author are separated by the
character.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Hope is a powerful weapon, and [one] no one power on earth can deprive you of.
Nelson Mandela
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins
Hope is the thing that stays with you when everything else is gone.
Lemony Snicket
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.
Unknown
Hope is the belief in a better tomorrow.
Unknown
Hope is the light that shines in the darkness, revealing that which is hidden and giving us the strength to carry on.
Unknown
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Peter Marshall
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Brian Tracy
It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
Abigail Adams
The only way to do something you're afraid of is to do it afraid.
Unknown
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar
Whoa, that was a lot of quotes, thanks for reading this far :) If you've enjoyed our "quotes about courage and adversity" quotes then you might like to check out our quotes about "Quotes about Courage And Art"