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

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

James, William

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

Warren, Earl

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Ziglar, Zig

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Benson, Taylor

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Horace

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb