Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Horace

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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

Rogers, James

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

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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

Wells, H.G.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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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 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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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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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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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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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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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

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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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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Aesop

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Seneca

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Things were bad but now they are OK.