Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Russell, Rosalind

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Wells, H.G.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Devito, Danny

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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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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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

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

Rogers, James

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seneca

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Ward, William A.

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

Kennedy, Rose F.