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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Qur'an

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Seneca

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

12.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

13.

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.

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Keats, John

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

Billings, Josh

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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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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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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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

30.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

34.

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

Virgil

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

Ward, William A.

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

43.

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

Weltman, Phil

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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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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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward