Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

- Burata, Mario

Best Quotes about 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.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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

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

Seneca

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

Heraclitus

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne