Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Adversity

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Billings, Josh

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Rogers, James

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

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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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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Gesser

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William