Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Brown, Les

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Warren, Earl

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

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Keats, John

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Russell, Rosalind

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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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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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

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.