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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Schweitzer, Albert
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Maltz, Maxwell

2.
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

3.
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

4.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Hemingway, Ernest

5.
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

6.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch

7.
The reward of suffering is experience.
Aeschylus

8.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Colton, Charles Caleb

9.
Only entropy comes easy.
Mumford, Lewis

10.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Shain, Merle

11.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]
Bible

12.
Every burden is a blessing.
Schuller, Robert H.

13.
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Heraclitus

14.
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

15.
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

16.
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Gesser

17.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace

18.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Kapuscinski, Ryszard

19.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Grant, Hanmer Parsons

20.
People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within
Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

21.
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

22.
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

23.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Holtz, Lou

24.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Landers, Ann

25.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Scott, Sir Walter

26.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Walton, Sam

28.
The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

29.
It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.
Seligman, Martin E. P.

30.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Schuller, Robert H.

31.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Mandino, Og

32.
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

33.
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

34.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Russell, Rosalind

35.
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Qur'an

36.
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)

37.
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

38.
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Ash, Mary Kay

40.
Stumbling is not falling.
Proverb, Portuguese

41.
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

42.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Johnson

43.
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

44.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Richter, Jean Paul

45.
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''

46.
They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]
Bible

47.
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

48.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Devito, Danny

49.
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop

50.
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Homer


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