Motivational Quotes

Adversity

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Sheehan, George

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

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Horace

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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.

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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Movie, Apollo 13