Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Saadi

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Talmud, The

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Wells, H.G.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Bacon, Francis

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.