Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

- Robert, Cavett

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

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.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Bennet, Arnold

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

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

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

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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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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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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Gesser

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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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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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Robert, Cavett

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Holtz, Lou