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

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

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Wells, H.G.

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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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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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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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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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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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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

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