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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Movie, Apollo 13

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

21.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Horace

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

Bennet, Arnold

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

29.

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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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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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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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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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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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

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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.