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

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

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Saadi

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

Kempis, Thomas

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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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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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

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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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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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.

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

James, William

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

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

Virgil

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

Neal, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Heraclitus

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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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