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

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Holtz, Lou

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Homer

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

Benson, Taylor

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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

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

Devito, Danny

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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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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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on 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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert