Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Horace

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

Ward, William A.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bacon, Francis

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

10.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

11.

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

12.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

13.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

14.

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

Devito, Danny

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

Gesser

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Sheehan, George

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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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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

Saadi

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

Talmud, The

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

Landers, Ann

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

32.

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

33.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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.

41.

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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Homer

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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