Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Benson, Taylor

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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.

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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

Gesser

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Horace

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

Brown, Les

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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

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

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

Heraclitus

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese