Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Horace

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Walton, Sam

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

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

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

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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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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)

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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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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Seneca

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee