Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

Benson, Taylor

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

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

Horace

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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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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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

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

Heraclitus

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Aesop

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

Horace

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Bible

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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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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

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Seneca

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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