Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Brown, Les

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

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Horace

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Landers, Ann

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Homer

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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

Talmud, The

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

James, William

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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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