Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Adversity

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

Talmud, The

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

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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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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Heraclitus

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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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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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Warren, Earl

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

Virgil

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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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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Seneca

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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 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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam