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

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Brown, Les

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Augustine, St.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Saadi

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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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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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Heraclitus

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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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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 your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Talmud, The

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

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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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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Aesop

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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Adversity is the first path to truth.