Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Adversity

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Sting

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

27.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Schweitzer, Albert

29.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Brown, Les

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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

34.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

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

Keats, John

36.

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

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

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

Qur'an

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl