Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Woolf, Virginia

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

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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.

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Horace

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

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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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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