Motivational Quotes

Adversity

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

- Dune, Frank Herbert

Best Quotes about Adversity

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Neal, John

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

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

James, William

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heraclitus

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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

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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

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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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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bible

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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''

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

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

Gesser

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

Homer

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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