Adversity and
Persistence Quotes

“The darkest hour is the hour just before dawn.”
- Proverb

Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will.
– W. Clement Stone

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.
– Claude Pepper

Never allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragements that must inevitably come.
– James Whitcomb Riley

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

When faced with a mountain, I will not quit. I will go over, under, around, or through it, or simply stay and make a gold mine of it.
– Robert H. Schuller

A stumbling block once settled, becomes a stepping stone.

“Without perspiration, there is no inspiration.”
- Ken Evoy

“You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it started.”
- Mike Litman