Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The proof of gold is fire...

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Hazlitt, William

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Johnson, Samuel

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Aesop

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

32.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

33.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

39.

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

Bacon, Francis

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Wells, H.G.

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Ward, William A.

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

Augustine, St.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.