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

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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Gesser

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Neal, John

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

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

Saadi

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

Aesop

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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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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Heraclitus