Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

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

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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Horace

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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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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

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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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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.

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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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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

30.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

31.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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

Homer

42.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Brown, Les

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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

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

Seneca

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore