Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Adversity

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Ward, William A.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Horace

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

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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.

10.

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

11.

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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Gesser

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Heraclitus

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

Horace

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Homer

33.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler