Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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''

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bible

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

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

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

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Benson, Taylor

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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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.

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

Bacon, Francis

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Weltman, Phil

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Landers, Ann

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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.

22.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Bennet, Arnold

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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.

33.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

39.

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

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.