Motivational Quotes

Adversity

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

- Advisor, Heartland

Best Quotes about Adversity

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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

Horace

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Qur'an

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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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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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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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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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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