Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Warren, Earl

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Brown, Les

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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

29.

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

Benson, Taylor

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

35.

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

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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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