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

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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)

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

10.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

11.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

12.

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

22.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

23.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

24.

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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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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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.

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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

43.

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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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

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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo