Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

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

Hoffman, Dustin

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Horace

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

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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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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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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]

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