Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Proverb, Maori

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

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

Schmidt, Walt

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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

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

Ward, William A.

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

Benson, Taylor

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Seneca

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth