Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

Homer

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

Qur'an

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

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

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Bennet, Arnold

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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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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Aesop

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

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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

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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

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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Horace

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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