Motivational Quotes

Adversity

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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

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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

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

Virgil

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?