Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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''

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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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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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

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

Ward, William A.

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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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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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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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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The proof of gold is fire...