Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Virgil

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Sting

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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