Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schwab, Charles M.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Johnson

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Augustine, St.

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