Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

- Kennedy, Rose F.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

Brown, Les

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

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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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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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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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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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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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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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

Homer

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