Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Virgil

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

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

Sheehan, George

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

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Brown, Les

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Devito, Danny

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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)

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Landers, Ann

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert