Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Neal, John

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Barclay, H.K.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

12.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

22.

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

Talmud, The

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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

35.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

36.

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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

Ward, William A.

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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

Sting