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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Devito, Danny

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

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)

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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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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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

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Saadi

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.