Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

- Burata, Mario

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Virgil

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Rogers, James

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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

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

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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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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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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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