Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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)

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

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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''

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

Movie, Apollo 13

10.

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

Bible

11.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

12.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

17.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

18.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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

21.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

28.

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

29.

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

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

35.

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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Benson, Taylor

45.

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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

47.

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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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 reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus