Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

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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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Brown, Les

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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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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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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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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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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