Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Adversity

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Rogers, James

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jung, Carl

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

Woolf, Virginia

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

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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 sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Virgil

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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.