Motivational Quotes

Adversity

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Aesop

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

Neal, John

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Heraclitus

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

Devito, Danny

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Talmud, The

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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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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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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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jung, Carl

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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

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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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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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.