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

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Horace

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Saadi

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Brown, Les

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

Aesop

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

Augustine, St.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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''

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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

Rogers, James

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

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

Virgil

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Neal, John