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

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

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Devito, Danny

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Rogers, James

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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hazlitt, William

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, 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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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