Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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

Devito, Danny

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Gesser

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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