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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Talmud, The

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Walton, Sam

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Neal, John

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

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

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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 would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Landers, Ann

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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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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Saadi

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

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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