Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity is the first path to truth.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

10.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

11.

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

Seneca

12.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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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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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

20.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

21.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

22.

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

23.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

24.

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

Augustine, St.

25.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

33.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

34.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

Ward, William A.

36.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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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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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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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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.

42.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

44.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

The proof of gold is fire...