Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Hoffman, Dustin

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Benson, Taylor

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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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

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Bible

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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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

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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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Ziglar, Zig

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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 will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Seneca

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Homer

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.