Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Rogers, James

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bennet, Arnold

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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