Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Neal, John

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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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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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

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Warren, Earl

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Wells, H.G.

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Saadi

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Shain, Merle

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard