Motivational Quotes

Adversity

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

- Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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)

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gesser

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Virgil

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Horace

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Horace

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Sheehan, George

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Heraclitus

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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent