Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Frank, Anne

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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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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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

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

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Rogers, James

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

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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

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

Gesser