Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Devito, Danny

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Shain, Merle

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

10.

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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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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.

21.

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 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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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

26.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

27.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

28.

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

Proverb, Maori

29.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

35.

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

36.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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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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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.

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

48.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas