Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Wells, H.G.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

17.

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

18.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

19.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

20.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

21.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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

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

Barclay, H.K.

25.

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''

26.

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.

27.

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

Johnson

28.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

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

Talmud, The

30.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

31.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

32.

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.

33.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

34.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

35.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

36.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

38.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

42.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Woolf, Virginia

46.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

47.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

48.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

49.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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