Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bennet, Arnold

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Saadi

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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Ward, William A.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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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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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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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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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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''

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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

Seneca

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

Horace

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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