Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Failure is success if we learn from it.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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 don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Aesop

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Saadi

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

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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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

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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.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Virgil

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Homer

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

Horace