Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Horace

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

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

Warren, Earl

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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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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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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Seneca

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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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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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 bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

Sting

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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