Motivational Quotes

Adversity

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Landers, Ann

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Ward, William A.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Proverb, Maori

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Warren, Earl

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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