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

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

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Jung, Carl

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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''

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

14.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

18.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

24.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Devito, Danny

28.

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

29.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

30.

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

Augustine, St.

31.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

33.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

34.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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

39.

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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.

45.

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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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

48.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

50.

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