Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Stumbling is not falling.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Adversity

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

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''

10.

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

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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

13.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Schweitzer, Albert

24.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Saadi

28.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

29.

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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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

31.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

32.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

33.

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

Horace

35.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

40.

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

41.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

42.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

43.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Homer

48.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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