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

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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.

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''

10.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

12.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Augustine, St.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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

Aesop

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

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

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

33.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Devito, Danny

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Horace

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

44.

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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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca