Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Horace

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''

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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Qur'an

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

Schmidt, Walt

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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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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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Gesser

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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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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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