Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Neal, John

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

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

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Weltman, Phil

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Heraclitus

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

Homer

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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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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth