Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

14.

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

15.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

16.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

Devito, Danny

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

21.

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

22.

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

Brown, Les

23.

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

Proverb, Maori

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

28.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

30.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

32.

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

33.

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

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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.

36.

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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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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ward, William A.

42.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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