Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The proof of gold is fire...

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Adversity

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Rogers, James

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Saadi

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

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bacon, Francis

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Aesop

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

Virgil

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest