Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Seneca

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Homer

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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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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Saadi

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul