Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Brown, Les

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Warren, Earl

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

Ziglar, Zig

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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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 greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Wells, H.G.

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

37.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard