Motivational Quotes

Adversity

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Adversity

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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''

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Warren, Earl

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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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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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Horace

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.