Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Adversity

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

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.

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

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

Augustine, St.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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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.

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

Horace

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Saadi

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

Shain, Merle

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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.

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

Heraclitus

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Horace

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

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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 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