Motivational Quotes

Adversity

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Adversity

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schmidt, Walt

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Ward, William A.

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Gesser

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

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

Seneca

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Shain, Merle

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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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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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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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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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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

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Bible

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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

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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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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Stumbling is not falling.