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

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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]

Bible

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Horace

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Horace

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

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Gesser

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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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''