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

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Devito, Danny

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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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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Schmidt, Walt

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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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Gesser

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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 every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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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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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Sheehan, George

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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