Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Holtz, Lou

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Saadi

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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''

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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

18.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

19.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Warren, Earl

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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

Heraclitus

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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.

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Rogers, James

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

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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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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

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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