Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

- Adams, Bryan

Best Quotes about Adversity

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Shain, Merle

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

13.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

29.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

30.

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

31.

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

36.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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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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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath