Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

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

Horace

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holtz, Lou

10.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

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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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Russell, Rosalind

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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 is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

26.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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

32.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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

35.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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