Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Ziglar, Zig

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Seneca

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Jung, Carl

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Homer

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Johnson

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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.

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

Devito, Danny

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

Horace

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will