Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bennet, Arnold

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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