Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Failure is success if we learn from it.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Seneca

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Homer

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Virgil

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Rogers, James

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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 you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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