Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Adversity

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Warren, Earl

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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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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

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

Aesop

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Horace

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Devito, Danny

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Gesser

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

Horace

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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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