Best Adversity Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.”

“As a mom, it's difficult to watch your child struggle.”

“There are still times when the person who is challenging you as an actor is also the person who sometimes challenges you as your child.”

“I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.”

“Young girls in Haryana should speak their mind and not be afraid to challenge the system.”

“I have always loved painting and I did it from a very young age.”

“At the end of the day I'll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are.”

“When there is a pain-in-the-neck role for a girl to play, the directors start yelling 'Agnes.'”

“Yeah, it's always big challenge for me to play Marin.”

“I like to play paintball in my back yard.”

“I spend a lot of time thinking and worrying about fatigue. It is the thing I struggle with the most.”

“When I'm too worn out or in pain, I lie in bed and write in my mind.”

“United is a much bigger challenge than Ajax. They're not just a big and famous club but also a worldwide brand, yet when you're inside, it's still a family place.”

“I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.”

“There are so many great players that have worn the No10 and I feel like it was a challenge I wanted to take on. I wanted to prove myself and prove I am capable of wearing it. I want to keep working hard and hopefully, the fans can see I am capable of wearing it.”

“I love playing football every day. I love working hard, I love training, I love the games; I love the challenge. As long as that still applies, I don't see any reason to call time on something that makes me so happy.”

“When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.”

“Whoever has the best take is what matters. My challenge is finding the best take, and it'll always be that.”

“I don't like whining about the challenges I face while I work. I know they are for the better so I can rise stronger and better.”

“Whenever I get a chance to get my reps in, that's a good challenge for me.”

“The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.”

“I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.”

“One of the things I've learned is people are smart, and they understand what should be done. They understand what the challenges are, but they're not always able to have their voices heard.”

“I try to find a vocalist that I don't have to make better. I try to find a vocalist that can make me better, and in turn, I can make them better so that we are, as a team, making ourselves better. I like the vocalist to challenge me. I love to challenge a vocalist.”

“What I consider a challenge is to prove that I am worthy as Journey's new vocalist.”

“I'm probably going to be more of a vocal leader, which is a challenge for me with English not being my natural language.”

“We face many health care challenges and having a healthy West Virginia is critical to building a world-class workforce.”

“I have been playing tennis for a very long time. Tennis is my life. I see my life in other places, and there are other challenges for me.”

“Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.”

“As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.”

“When I think of Venice Beach, my father's painting is what comes to mind.”

“I am happy that I can challenge myself in various fields.”

“You have years where most things go your way, and you have years where more things than usual seem like a challenge.”

“If you know what you're doing, it's not interesting. It has to be a challenge; it has to seem impossible and urgent to do it. And then you do it.”

“One of the things that upset me a lot, and I'm pretty open about it is people that challenge my character or challenge my commitment to my job or the game that I play.”

“I struggle with my weight - up and down like a yo-yo.”

“You're never too big for the Challengers. There have been many great players who've had to go up and down there.”

“I like the challenge of making people do things which seem unthinkable.”

“Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic.”

“The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.”

“Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.”

“In 1997, I was an unknown struggler; In 2018, I am a well-known beginner.”

“People say, 'You've got to challenge yourself,' and I don't think there's anything better than going, 'I don't understand how this thing is possible.' Fear of the unknown is always the thing in life.”

“Every challenge has its own unique problems.”

“I never plan things. Whatever unfolds, I take it as a challenge and go with the flow.”

“Call me a struggler, a failure, work in progress or underrated, but I would love people to add the word singer or musician along with it.”

“I'm ready to be the underdog and challenge the champion. I'm ready to go out there and prove people wrong.”

“I want everyone to know what it's like to be very, very uncomfortable and to push themselves anyway. It helps build confidence when other challenges come up.”

“Obviously when you challenge yourself you learn a lot about yourself, and ultimately you're going to get better in whatever field.”

“I always enjoy the name game and the two-way mirror challenge.”

“You tell that to people until you are blue in the face and they struggle to believe it, but I am being totally truthful when I say that all that matters to me is Wales winning.”

“One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.”

“When you are a tricky wide player, you are always used to tackles and challenges.”

“My father is an action director and he often worked with Veeru Devgnji. That's how I would end up at Ajay Devgn's film trials.”

“I really don't do fat jokes. I talk about the trials and tribulations of being a large mammal in America.”

“You have to go through a lot of trials and tribulations as a player to be able to grow and learn from 'em and to become better.”

“One thing that we can do for each other is support each other. At one point or another, we all go through trials and tribulations, so giving your time is one way to help.”

“There's trials and tribulations in a band.”

“Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.”

“I was the only female in the special trials unit for many years.”

“Some days I'm on top of the world, and nothing can stop me, and I'm Super Woman, but I have trials and tribulations, too.”

“I've gone through my trials and tribulations, and sure, it's gotten bumpy and all that, but I'm here. OK?”

“We're all going to have our trials and tribulations, but you can work through them and everything will be all right.”

“Every time you play for your country it is like you are on trial to be honest.”

“I had nothing to lose at my Fulham trial and I just gave it my all.”

“A sheepdog trial is the most difficult test of a man and dog ever devised.”

“Unless you go to trial, you don't know what the truth is.”

“I made mistakes in every trial.”

“When you think about it, a trial is not really about what the truth is, it's about which barrister is better at persuading those 12 people to believe their story.”

“What often happens in a court of law is that, if victims do get their day in court, they are on trial as much as the perpetrators.”

“Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.”

“In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.”

“I had my first trial at Villa at five.”

“When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the music is not an open court and a fair trial.'”

“I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.”

“Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.”

“We all know how to focus on trauma. This is the struggle. We have the opportunity to respect our journey and focus on joy.”

“I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.”

“I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.”

“I have seen pain. I can feel the pain of those who undergo it. Pain gets transferred to those who see someone suffering.”

“I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.”

“I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.”

“I always wanted to be a professional player, but when I started playing well in Challengers and, for the first time, I did well at ATP tournaments, I saw that these guys are also beatable.”

“There were players inside of the U.S. that could challenge me and beat me every week, and I wasn't winning every single USTA tournament that I was playing.”

“Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.”

“I take the toughest challenges and fight against the best women. With that attitude, I will always be doing something big. I'm light-years ahead of my time.”

“Learning to read is going to be the toughest challenge for me.”

“I want the hardest, toughest challenges out there for me.”

“Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.”

“I think the tougher the challenge the better.”

“If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.”

“Me and Dec are long in the tooth now - we've seen every Bush Tucker trial there is.”

“There are just way too many people suffering out there.”

“I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.”

“I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.”

“I'm very tough and I have a high tolerance for pain.”

“Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.”

“I have a high tolerance for pain.”

“Being in a new city with a toddler can be a bit of a challenge.”

“I don't care about the titles. I care about the challenges.”