Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Warren, Earl

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Keats, John

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Bible

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

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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''

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Sting

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Brown, Les

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Virgil

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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.

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

Sheehan, George

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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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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

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

Devito, Danny

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

Ward, William A.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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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