Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Horace

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

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

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Seneca

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Heraclitus

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent