Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Augustine, St.

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

28.

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

Gesser

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

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

40.

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

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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

44.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

46.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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