Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Sting

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Shain, Merle

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Horace

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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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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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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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

Gesser

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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 reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

James, William

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

Seneca

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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''