Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Saadi

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Proverb, Maori

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

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Warren, Earl

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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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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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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 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 see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius