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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Horace

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

Jung, Carl

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Augustine, St.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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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

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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

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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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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

Rogers, James

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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