Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Warren, Earl

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Landers, Ann

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

Homer

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

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

Aesop

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ward, William A.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Hazlitt, William

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Bacon, Francis

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

James, William

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

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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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca