Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Adversity

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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''

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Heraclitus

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Qur'an

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Gesser

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Landers, Ann

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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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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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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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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)

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

Warren, Earl

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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

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

Bible

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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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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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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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