Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Horace

10.

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

11.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Gesser

13.

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

James, William

14.

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

Holtz, Lou

15.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

16.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Seneca

27.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

34.

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

35.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

36.

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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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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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

40.

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Wells, H.G.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Homer

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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 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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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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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.