Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Seneca

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Shain, Merle

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

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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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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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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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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Virgil

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James