Motivational Quotes

Adversity

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

10.

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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

12.

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''

13.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

17.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

18.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

20.

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

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

Holtz, Lou

22.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

28.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

29.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

31.

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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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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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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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

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

Aesop

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

Hazlitt, William

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

40.

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

Homer

42.

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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

44.

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

45.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill