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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

Shain, Merle

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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 your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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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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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Robert, Cavett

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Seneca

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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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 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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam