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

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Bacon, Francis

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

10.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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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

13.

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

Keats, John

16.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

23.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Gesser

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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

31.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

33.

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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Schmidt, Walt

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

James, William

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

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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.

Collier, Robert

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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