Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Adversity

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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

Keats, John

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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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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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

26.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Seneca

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Landers, Ann

30.

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

31.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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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

36.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

Virgil

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Warren, Earl

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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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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

44.

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

45.

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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.