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

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

Neal, John

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Saadi

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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Heraclitus

11.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

24.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

27.

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

28.

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

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

32.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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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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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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

40.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

41.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

44.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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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