Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Shain, Merle

Best Quotes about Adversity

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Wells, H.G.

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.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Barclay, H.K.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

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

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

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

Johnson

14.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

18.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

19.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

20.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

21.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Warren, Earl

27.

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

Ward, William A.

28.

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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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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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

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

Weltman, Phil

32.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

33.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Horace

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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.

41.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

43.

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

45.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis