Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Virgil

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Horace

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

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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 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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Ward, William A.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

41.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Neal, John

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.