Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Proverb, Chinese

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Horace

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

Heraclitus

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

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

18.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

Holtz, Lou

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Brown, Les

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

Kempis, Thomas