Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Devito, Danny

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

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.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Landers, Ann

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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.

28.

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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Virgil

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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