Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Adversity

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Walton, Sam

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Kempis, Thomas

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Devito, Danny

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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 splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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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