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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Johnson, Samuel

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Heraclitus

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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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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

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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

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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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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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