Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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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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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Warren, Earl

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Heraclitus

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

Gesser

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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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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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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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

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