Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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''

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Rogers, James

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Shain, Merle

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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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

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

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Aesop

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Benson, Taylor

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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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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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