Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Brown, Les

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Wells, H.G.

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Gesser

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Horace

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.