Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Failure is success if we learn from it.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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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

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

Warren, Earl

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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

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Virgil

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Heraclitus

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

Ziglar, Zig

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Schmidt, Walt

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.