Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Holtz, Lou

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.

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

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

Sting

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

Warren, Earl

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

29.

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

Devito, Danny

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Wells, H.G.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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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''

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Brown, Les

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.