Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Johnson, Samuel

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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 greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Weltman, Phil

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Virgil

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Holtz, Lou

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes