Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.