Motivational Quotes

Adversity

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

Horace

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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Seneca

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Ward, William A.

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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.