Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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

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

Wells, H.G.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Horace

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

Saadi

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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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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Weltman, Phil

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Benson, Taylor

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

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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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

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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.

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

Seneca