Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Sheehan, George

11.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

15.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Ziglar, Zig

27.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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Paine, Thomas

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

Devito, Danny

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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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 stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Bible

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Schmidt, Walt

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.