Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Failure is success if we learn from it.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

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

12.

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

Devito, Danny

13.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

15.

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

19.

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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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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 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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

27.

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.

28.

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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Saadi

33.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

34.

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

Proverb, Maori

35.

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

Russell, Rosalind

36.

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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Aesop

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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