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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Gesser

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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Homer

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

Talmud, The

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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 bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Warren, Earl

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Ziglar, Zig

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Schweitzer, Albert