Motivational Quotes

Adversity

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Walton, Sam

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

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

Bacon, Francis

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Weltman, Phil

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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