Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Horace

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keats, John

10.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Heraclitus

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

Gesser

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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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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

38.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

40.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

41.

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

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

Augustine, St.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May