Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Johnson, Samuel

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Ward, William A.

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

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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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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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.

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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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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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

James, William

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Brown, Les

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

Movie, Apollo 13