Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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.

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.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

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

Virgil

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

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Bible

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Augustine, St.

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

Seneca

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Hemingway, Ernest