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

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

Johnson

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

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Keats, John

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

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

Billings, Josh

10.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

11.

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

Saadi

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

15.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

16.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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)

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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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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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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 depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

Seneca

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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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.

30.

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

31.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

34.

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

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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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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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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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.

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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore