Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Saadi

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

Hemingway, Ernest

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Ransom, Ralph

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill