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

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

Sting

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

11.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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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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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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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Warren, Earl

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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

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Alcott, Louisa May