Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

- Burata, Mario

Best Quotes about Adversity

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Qur'an

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.

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

Billings, Josh

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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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 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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Heraclitus

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Seneca

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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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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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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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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

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

Gesser

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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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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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Horace

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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