Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

- Coppola, Francis Ford

Best Quotes about Adversity

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

Holtz, Lou

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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''

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Aesop

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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Saadi

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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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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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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Virgil

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Wells, H.G.

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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