Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Schmidt, Walt

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Landers, Ann

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

Ziglar, Zig

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gesser

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Saadi

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ward, William A.

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

James, William

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

32.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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

Augustine, St.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Brown, Les

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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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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Homer

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill