Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The reward of suffering is experience.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Talmud, The

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

Seneca

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Aesop

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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

11.

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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Rogers, James

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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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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

Homer

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Ward, William A.

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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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''

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.