Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gesser

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Devito, Danny

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

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

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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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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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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

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Homer

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

Barclay, H.K.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Wells, H.G.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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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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

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

James, William

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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