Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sheehan, George

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Virgil

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Wells, H.G.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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

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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Shain, Merle

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Horace