Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

- Zwanzig, Carl

Best Quotes about Adversity

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Saadi

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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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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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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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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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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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

Sting

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Augustine, St.

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.