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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Jung, Carl

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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

Alcott, Louisa May

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

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

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Gesser

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Devito, Danny

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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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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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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Talmud, The

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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