Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Bennet, Arnold

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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''

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Qur'an

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Virgil

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Keats, John

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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

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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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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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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

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Ward, William A.

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

33.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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 reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Aesop

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Johnson

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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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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

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Seneca