Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Wells, H.G.

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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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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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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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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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

Virgil

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