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

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Keats, John

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

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

Seneca

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

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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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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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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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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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Ziglar, Zig

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Devito, Danny

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

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

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

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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