Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hill, Napoleon

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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''

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

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Augustine, St.

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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 got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

Brown, Les

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, Maori

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

James, William

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

Homer

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Seneca

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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

Horace

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