Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Seneca

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

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.

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

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

Rogers, James

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

Billings, Josh

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

Warren, Earl

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

10.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Gesser

15.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

17.

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

Sting

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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.

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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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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 greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

31.

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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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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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

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

40.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

44.

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

Saadi

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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

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee