Motivational Quotes

Adversity

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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''

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

Scott, Sir Walter

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bible

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

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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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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

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas