Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

10.

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

Proverb, Maori

11.

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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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

17.

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

Warren, Earl

18.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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.

20.

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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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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

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

Horace

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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

27.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

28.

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 hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

30.

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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

32.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

33.

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

Talmud, The

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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.

38.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

Virgil

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

45.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

46.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

47.

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

48.

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

Walton, Sam

49.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

50.

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