Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

- Salk, Lee

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

James, William

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Saadi

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Landers, Ann

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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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

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

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

Rogers, James

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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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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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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