Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

- Cady, Emilie

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Devito, Danny

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Aesop

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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

Bible

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Weltman, Phil

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Homer

41.

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

Keats, John

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

45.

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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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