Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Scott, Sir Walter

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Landers, Ann

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Homer

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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 could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Bible

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Gesser

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.