Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Lawrence, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Saadi

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Aesop

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

10.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

14.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

21.

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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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 reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Warren, Earl

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

Ziglar, Zig

32.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

34.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

35.

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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

43.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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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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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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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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