Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Seneca

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

11.

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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

19.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

20.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

28.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Landers, Ann

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sheehan, George

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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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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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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

Ward, William A.

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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