Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

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

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

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

James, William

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Warren, Earl

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

Bible

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

10.

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

11.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

12.

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

13.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

14.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

15.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

19.

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

Neal, John

20.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

21.

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

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

30.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

31.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

32.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Seneca

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

39.

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

Devito, Danny

40.

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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Ziglar, Zig