Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bible

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Wells, H.G.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Heraclitus

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Talmud, The

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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.

41.

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

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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 would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Devito, Danny

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Benson, Taylor

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.