Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Overcoming Adversity Quotes
DisciplineOvercoming AdversityRespect and EsteemStrength in Unity Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
LightLoveOvercoming AdversityPositivity Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
DeterminationOvercoming AdversityPerseveranceSuccess Against Odds Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.
BalanceHappinessOvercoming AdversityTruthWisdom The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
GloryOvercoming AdversityPerseveranceResilience The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
Overcoming AdversityPersonal GrowthReflectionResilience I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
GrowthOvercoming AdversityPerseveranceResilienceSuccess The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
CourageGrowthOvercoming AdversityResilienceStrength I had a lot of racism growing up where I grew up. Bullied at school. It definitely encouraged me. It's like battle wounds - you come out the other side, and it just makes you tougher.
Overcoming Adversity I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
Overcoming AdversityResilienceWork My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
GrowthJoyOvercoming Adversity The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
MindsetOvercoming AdversityPerseveranceSelf-Control Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Overcoming AdversityPerseveranceResilienceStrengthWisdom I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
Overcoming AdversityPerseveranceResilience It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Mental StrengthOvercoming AdversityPerseveranceResistanceSelf-Confidence 'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don't like winners; they don't like people who's blessed. So everybody's got a different 'they.'
Overcoming AdversityPerseverancePurposeRevenge I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
DeterminationHardshipOvercoming AdversityResponsibility My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.
CourageDeterminationImportance of PurposeOvercoming AdversityPerseverance When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
HardshipOpportunityOvercoming AdversityPerseveranceStruggle I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.
LifeLossOvercoming AdversityResilience Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
CourageOvercoming AdversityPerseveranceResilience We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
EducationFamilyOvercoming AdversityPerseverance We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
AmbitionOvercoming AdversityPerseverance The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Identity CrisisOvercoming AdversityRedemptionRehabilitationResilience My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.