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

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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''

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Bible

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Weltman, Phil

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Aesop

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Devito, Danny

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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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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

33.

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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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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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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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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.

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario