Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

- Burata, Mario

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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

Ward, William A.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Keats, John

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Aesop

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Homer

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

Heraclitus

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Augustine, St.

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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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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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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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