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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Seneca

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.

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

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Ward, William A.

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

Warren, Earl

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Saadi

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Augustine, St.

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

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Gesser

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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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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