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

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Wells, H.G.

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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Seneca

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Schmidt, Walt

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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 were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Devito, Danny

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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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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