Motivational Quotes

Adversity

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

- Hoffman, Dustin

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Horace

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

James, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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''

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

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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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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder