Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Heraclitus

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

Qur'an

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Warren, Earl

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Gesser

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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

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

Benson, Taylor

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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