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

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Sheehan, George

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

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

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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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

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Shain, Merle

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

Brown, Les

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Devito, Danny

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Aesop

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Maori

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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