Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Horace

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

James, William

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Horace

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

Johnson

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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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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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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

Saadi

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Gesser

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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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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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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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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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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

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

Homer

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich