Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

- Johnson

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Homer

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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Brown, Les

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

32.

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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

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

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

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

Aesop

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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.

43.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Devito, Danny

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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