Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Neal, John

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

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

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

Bennet, Arnold

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

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Devito, Danny

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Weltman, Phil

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Bible

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.