Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Ward, William A.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Heraclitus

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Homer

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Holtz, Lou

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

Seneca

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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