Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Weltman, Phil

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)

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

Walton, Sam

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

Hoffman, Dustin

10.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

11.

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

Warren, Earl

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Qur'an

16.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

Barclay, H.K.

25.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

26.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

27.

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

28.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

29.

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

30.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

32.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

33.

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

Jung, Carl

34.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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.

41.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

43.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Horace