Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Brown, Les

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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

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

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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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