Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Failure is success if we learn from it.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

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

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

Seneca

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Neal, John

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Holtz, Lou

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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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

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

Gesser

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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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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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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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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian