Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

- Burata, Mario

Best Quotes about Adversity

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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)

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

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Neal, John

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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

18.

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

Bible

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

Homer

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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Brown, Les

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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

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

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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.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay