Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Virgil

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Qur'an

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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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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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

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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

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Aesop

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

Ward, William A.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald