Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Adversity

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

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

Heraclitus

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Johnson

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Keats, John

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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 your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Ward, William A.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Saadi

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

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Aesop

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

Augustine, St.

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Landers, Ann

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

Movie, Apollo 13