Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

- Sheehan, George

Best Quotes about Adversity

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

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

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

Seneca

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Johnson

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

Brown, Les

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Warren, Earl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Gesser