Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

- Burata, Mario

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Schwab, Charles M.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

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

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett