Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every burden is a blessing.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

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

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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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 blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.