Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Johnson

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

Gesser

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

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

Keats, John

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Seneca

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Ward, William A.

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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 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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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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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Devito, Danny

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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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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