Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Walton, Sam

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Gesser

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Brown, Les

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Warren, Earl

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

Horace

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

36.

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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Rogers, James

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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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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 seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.