Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Billings, Josh

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Homer

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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

Rogers, James

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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel