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

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Devito, Danny

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

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

Aesop

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Weltman, Phil

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Horace

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Horace

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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.

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

Ward, William A.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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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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

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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

Ziglar, Zig