Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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)

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

10.

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

11.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

12.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

13.

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

Bible

14.

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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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

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

18.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

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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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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

30.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Homer

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

Virgil

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

40.

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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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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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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Schmidt, Walt

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Heraclitus

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