Motivational Quotes

Adversity

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Schmidt, Walt

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

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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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Seneca

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

Devito, Danny

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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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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 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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

21.

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

Ward, William A.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Homer

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Proverb, Maori

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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 worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb