Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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.

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

Propertius, Sextus

11.

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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Homer

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

31.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

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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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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert