Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Stumbling is not falling.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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.

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.

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Bible

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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.

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

Homer

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Wells, H.G.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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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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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

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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

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

Shain, Merle

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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Proverb, Maori

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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''

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Devito, Danny

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline