Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

- Rogers, James

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Billings, Josh

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

12.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Saadi

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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 not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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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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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Aesop

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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