Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Seneca

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

Jung, Carl

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

Sheehan, George

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

Augustine, St.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Gesser

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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

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

28.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Seneca

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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.

43.

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

Hazlitt, William

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Devito, Danny

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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