Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Adversity

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Homer

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Landers, Ann

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.