Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The proof of gold is fire...

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Adversity

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seneca

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Benson, Taylor

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

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

James, William

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

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

Weltman, Phil

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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

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Gesser

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

Homer

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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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 is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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