Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Things were bad but now they are OK.

- Seymour, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Adversity

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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.

12.

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

13.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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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

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

25.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

27.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Horace

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

31.

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

32.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

40.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Seneca

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

45.

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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Ziglar, Zig

49.

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

Shain, Merle

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian