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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Barclay, H.K.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

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

Gesser

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Virgil

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

Bible

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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

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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

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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

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Heraclitus

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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

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Ziglar, Zig

31.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Johnson

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

Ward, William A.

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

James, William

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

Saadi

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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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 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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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