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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Warren, Earl

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

Seneca

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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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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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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Talmud, The

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Walton, Sam

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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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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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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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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

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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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.