Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Sting

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

Bible

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

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

Aesop

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

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

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Seneca

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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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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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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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Sheehan, George

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

Brown, Les

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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

Horace

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Ward, William A.

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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