Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Failure is success if we learn from it.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Adversity

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Keats, John

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

Benson, Taylor

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Walton, Sam

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

Aesop

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Gesser

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

17.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Seneca

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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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Virgil

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Proverb, Chinese