Motivational Quotes

Adversity

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Devito, Danny

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

10.

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

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

13.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Warren, Earl

17.

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

Augustine, St.

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

20.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

21.

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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

27.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

28.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Wells, H.G.

30.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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.

32.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

34.

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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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

42.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

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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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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

48.

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

Talmud, The

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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.