Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

- Rogers, James

Best Quotes about Adversity

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Horace

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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.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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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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.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Bible

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Ward, William A.

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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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

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

Gesser