Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hazlitt, William

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

Ward, William A.

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

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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Seneca

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

Gesser

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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 greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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What is to give light must endure the burning.