Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Only entropy comes easy.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about Adversity

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

14.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Saadi

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

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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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

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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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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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

Shain, Merle

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bennet, Arnold

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

Seneca

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Devito, Danny

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

39.

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

40.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

43.

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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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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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

46.

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

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

Gesser

48.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian