Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Adversity

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Hazlitt, William

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

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

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.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Sting

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Horace

11.

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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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.

14.

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

Weltman, Phil

15.

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

16.

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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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

18.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

19.

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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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.

France, Anatole

21.

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

22.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

23.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

25.

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

Schmidt, Walt

26.

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

Devito, Danny

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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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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

29.

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

30.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

Ward, William A.

33.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

34.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

35.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

37.

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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

39.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

40.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

41.

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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

43.

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.

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.