Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Stumbling is not falling.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Adversity

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Bennet, Arnold

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Warren, Earl

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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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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Holtz, Lou

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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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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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

27.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Virgil

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Gesser

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

Landers, Ann

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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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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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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

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.