Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Adversity

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''

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

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

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

Hoffman, Dustin

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Warren, Earl

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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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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 used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Johnson

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Benson, Taylor

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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