Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Adversity

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

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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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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Proverb, Maori

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Ward, William A.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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

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

Warren, Earl

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

Ziglar, Zig