Motivational Quotes

Adversity

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Adversity

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Horace

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Landers, Ann

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

34.

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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

36.

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

Bible

37.

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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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Warren, Earl

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich