Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Best Quotes about Adversity

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

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

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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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

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Saadi

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Homer

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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''

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy