Motivational Quotes

Adversity

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

- Dune, Frank Herbert

Best Quotes about Adversity

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Gesser

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Homer

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

Brown, Les

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Devito, Danny

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

Benson, Taylor

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Warren, Earl

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Seneca

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.