Motivational Quotes

Adversity

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

- Saying, Greek

Best Quotes about Adversity

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Propertius, Sextus

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Aesop

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

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

10.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

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

12.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

15.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

17.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

18.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

19.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

22.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

25.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

26.

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

27.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

29.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

30.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

34.

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

35.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

37.

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

39.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

40.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

41.

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

Saadi

42.

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

43.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

45.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Seneca

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.