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

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Bible

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Aesop

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

Augustine, St.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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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

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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