Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Warren, Earl

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Holtz, Lou

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.

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

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

Virgil

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Barclay, H.K.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

James, William

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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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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