Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

- Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Best Quotes about Adversity

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

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''

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Saadi

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

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gesser

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seneca

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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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