Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Adversity

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

James, William

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

15.

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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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Ward, William A.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

31.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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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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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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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Russell, Rosalind