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

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

Horace

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ward, William A.

10.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

11.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Billings, Josh

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

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Seneca

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Gesser

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

Aesop

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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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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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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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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

33.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

34.

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

35.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Homer

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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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Seneca

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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

49.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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