Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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.

11.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

25.

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

Devito, Danny

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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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

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth