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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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 the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

Brown, Les

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Wells, H.G.

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

James, William

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold