Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

James, William

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

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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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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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

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

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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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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

Gesser

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Ward, William A.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Keats, John

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Homer

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

Devito, Danny

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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)