Motivational Quotes

Adversity

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

- Benson, Taylor

Best Quotes about Adversity

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

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

Qur'an

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

Hazlitt, William

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Warren, Earl

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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

Devito, Danny

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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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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ward, William A.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Augustine, St.

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Seneca

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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 silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind