Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schwab, Charles M.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Brown, Les

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Gesser

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Rogers, James

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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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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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Warren, Earl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The reward of suffering is experience.