Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about 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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

11.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

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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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

14.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

16.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

17.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

18.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

20.

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

Horace

21.

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

Billings, Josh

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

24.

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

25.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Homer

30.

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

31.

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

Neal, John

32.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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 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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

38.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

39.

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

Devito, Danny

40.

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

Saadi

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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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

43.

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

44.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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

46.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

47.

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

48.

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

Ward, William A.