Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Adversity

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Seneca

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

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

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

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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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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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Rogers, James

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Aesop

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Brown, Les

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

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

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Saadi

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Augustine, St.

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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