Challenges & Adversity: Overcoming Obstacles Quotes

Explore concise and uplifting quotes that illuminate the path of overcoming obstacles within challenges and adversity. These selections highlight resilience, grit, patience, and creative problem-solving, offering calm encouragement when progress feels slow. Find perspectives that turn setbacks into lessons and barriers into stepping stones. Whether seeking a quick spark or steady reassurance, these voices emphasize focus, small wins, and courage to continue. Let them support a practical mindset for moving forward with clarity and strength.

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"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it"

Denzel Washington, Actor

Denzel Washington

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe"

Muhammad Ali, Athlete

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

Tennessee Williams

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

Epicurus, Philosopher

"Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes"

Henry J. Kaiser, Businessman

Henry J. Kaiser

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song"

Carl Perkins, Musician

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

Marc Garneau

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

Robert H. Schuller

"Conquered, we conquer"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"Inside of every problem lies an opportunity"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

Alfred A. Montapert

"I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

Ann Bancroft

"For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

Ann Bancroft

"Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

Robert H. Schuller

"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities"

Ralph Marston, Writer

Ralph Marston

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

Napoleon Hill

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place"

James Lane Allen, Author

James Lane Allen

"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

Nadia Comaneci

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

Christopher Reeve, Actor

Christopher Reeve

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations"

Charles R. Swindoll, Clergyman

Charles R. Swindoll

"If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"The triumph can't be had without the struggle"

Wilma Rudolph, Athlete

"To fly we have to have resistance"

Maya Lin, Architect

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

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"Suffering is one of life's great teachers"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit"

Terry Fox, Athlete

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