Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Proverb, Maori

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.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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

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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

16.

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

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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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Keats, John

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

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

32.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

33.

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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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