Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Zwanzig, Carl

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Hoffman, Dustin

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Augustine, St.

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Benson, Taylor

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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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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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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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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.