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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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

Virgil

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Horace

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Heraclitus

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

James, William

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

Gesser

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

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

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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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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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 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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schwab, Charles M.