Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Shain, Merle

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

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

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Heraclitus

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

Ward, William A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Warren, Earl

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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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 would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

34.

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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.